Edmund Phelps Quotes
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.Edmund Phelps
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
Xavier Niel -
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
Larry Bird -
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West -
I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
Karen Salmansohn -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Tamra Davis -
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch -
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
Queen Latifah -
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
Adam Mansbach -
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
Malin Akerman -
I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
Zach Galifianakis -
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw -
I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
Tali Lennox -
At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
Sally Mann -
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
M. Night Shyamalan
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
Vicente del Bosque -
It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
Diego Klattenhoff -
I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.
John McAfee -
I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
Imelda Staunton -
I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
Maysoon Zayid -
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
Edmund Phelps