Edmund Phelps Quotes

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

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• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
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• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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  • Piano
  • Rock And Roll

• The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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  • Bank

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
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• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Holocaust

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
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• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Guy
  • Me

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
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  • Star

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
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• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
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• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
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• I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Fact

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Organization

• Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Content

• I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

  

  Bobby Hull
  • People

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• When I was growing up, around 14, it wasn't really cool at the time to have a big butt. I would always cover it with sweaters, and I was so ashamed of it. Now I'm like, 'Why would I ever do that? That's awful!' Don't change yourself, and don't try to be anyone who you're not.

  

  Elsa Hosk
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• A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Time
  • World
  • Father

• When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Happiness

• I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

  

  Edmund Phelps
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