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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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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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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Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?
