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.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• 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.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • For Her
  • Invisible

• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Corrupt

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Enemy
  • Gay

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• 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?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • End
  • Media

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Good
  • Words

• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Past
  • Serious

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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