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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I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
