Edmund Phelps Quotes
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
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Crazy diets, good diets, you can't name one I didn't do.
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As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
