Timothy Geithner Quotes
The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Quotes to Explore
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.
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I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.
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My music is airy; it's spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That's what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it's a bit of a task.
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Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
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Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
