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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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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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
