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 am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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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 got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
