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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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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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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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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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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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
