Alan M. Taylor Quotes
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
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I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of 'Whole Lotta Love.'
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Not only did life originate on earth very early in its history as a planet, but for the first two billion years, Earth was inhabited solely by bacteria.
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We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.
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We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.
