William Greider Quotes

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

William Greider

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• Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Story
  • Name

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • London

• True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • True
  • Giving

• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Silence

• À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Fire

• As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

  

  Ben Chandler
  • Important
  • Connection

• We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Work
  • Country
  • Hurt

• I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

  

  Matt Damon

• It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

  

  Khalid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Technology

• Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Heart

• Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Up

• If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • High

• There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

  

  Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Die

• I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Reading
  • Church

• When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

  

  Armando Iannucci
  • People

• What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

  

  James Fenton
  • Lyric

• Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

  

  Anne McLellan
  • Worth
  • Pension
  • Contemplated

• It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enjoy
  • Process
  • Getting

• Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Idea
  • Moment
  • Romance

• Before I start a company, I always invest at least one year to knowing that sector thoroughly. I research about almost everything related to that business - competition, market potential, revenue model, legal and regulatory obligations, among other aspects.

  

  Bhavin Turakhia
  • Business
  • Model
  • Research

• I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Cigarette
  • Disgusting

• The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

  

  William Greider
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  • Pension