Edmund Phelps Quotes
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?Edmund Phelps
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
Gary Webb -
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
Ueli Gegenschatz -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans -
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
Harbhajan Singh -
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O -
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
Hans Blix -
I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
Fawn Hall -
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
Gary Oldman -
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. Wilson -
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy -
My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
Flip Wilson
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
Dana Torres -
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
Danica McKellar -
Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
Paloma Elsesser -
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael -
I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
E. P. Thompson
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It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.
Marianne Elliott -
I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including the Renaissance, which I am prepared to sound expert on.
Jools Holland -
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Malorie Blackman -
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Iris Murdoch -
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
Ava DuVernay -
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
Edmund Phelps