Edmund Phelps Quotes
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I never listen to music when I'm writing.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
