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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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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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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Me showing my emotions... it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of passion.
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
