Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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Fashion starts with fashionable people.
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I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.
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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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Since the day we started Guess, the brand has always stood for young, sexy and adventurous, and it is these same qualities that I look for in the models that become Guess Girls. They also have to look healthy.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
