Edmund Phelps Quotes
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.
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Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
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Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
