Edmund Phelps Quotes
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
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I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
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Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.
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It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
