Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
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I don't watch things like 'Jeepers Creepers' or 'Final Destination 53.' I really like more of the psychological thrillers, like 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Shining' and 'Don't Look Now.'
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
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Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.
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I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
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Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.
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I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
