Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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Having children with someone is the real bond.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
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When the day's work is over, it's over.
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.
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I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
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I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
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The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
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The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
