Edmund Phelps Quotes
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
