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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.
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You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket.
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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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.
