Edmund Phelps Quotes

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

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• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Best
  • Look
  • Makeup

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Training

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Page

• I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Women
  • Remember

• That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Real
  • Painting
  • Personality

• Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Moment

• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Blessed

• Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Being
  • Exciting
  • Advantages

• If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Think
  • Stop

• In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Today
  • United States
  • Ready

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Business
  • Today
  • Persuading

• The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.

  

  Amelia Bloomer
  • Women
  • Equal
  • Dominion

• When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Important
  • Myself

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage