Edmund Phelps Quotes
One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
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But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
