Edmund Phelps Quotes
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
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I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is.
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I want to use my voice to better health care for pregnant women.
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I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
