Edmund Phelps Quotes
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.
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My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
