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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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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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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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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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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Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
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My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.
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The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
