Edmund Phelps Quotes
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.
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I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that.
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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
