Edmund Phelps Quotes
Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
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I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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Laughter is America's most important export.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
