Allan H. Meltzer Quotes
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.Allan H. Meltzer
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles -
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
Pat Robertson -
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.
Ian MacKaye -
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver -
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Nash Grier
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
LaToya London -
I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
Hamish Linklater -
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
Obie Trice
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
Jack Keane -
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
Valentina Matviyenko -
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
Zooey Deschanel -
I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
Sam Heughan -
I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
Natalie Dormer -
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
Malala Yousafzai
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting -
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
Jim Lovell -
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.
Henry Paulson -
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
Allan H. Meltzer