Arthur Melvin Okun Quotes
High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.Arthur Melvin Okun
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
Kabir Bedi -
Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
Randy Moss -
I'm no producer's kid.
Tanya Fischer -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal -
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson -
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
Beck -
I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
Ofra Haza -
I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
Magic Johnson -
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson -
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Carine Roitfeld
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Dancing is a beautiful thing.
J. R. Martinez -
I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
Sam Shepard -
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
Vera Wang -
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Harlan Coben -
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
Ted Nelson
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
Oprah Winfrey -
To me, everything happening inside of us is political.
Marianne Williamson -
The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.
Gary Player -
Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.
Conan O'Brien -
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
Tony Abbott -
High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.
Arthur Melvin Okun