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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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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I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
