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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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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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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I buy way too many books.
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I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day.
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I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.
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It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.
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For some reason there's this myth that creativity - especially in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.
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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.
