Edmund Phelps Quotes
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I love doing every role I do!
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
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I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
