Edmund Phelps Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
