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• Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Consumers

• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Real
  • Love

• People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Time
  • Home
  • Needs

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Legal

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Fear
  • Action

• Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Remember

• ...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Good
  • God
  • May

• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Progress

• I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

  

  Pina Bausch
  • Bored

• Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

  

  Mark Morris
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

  

  David Bellos
  • Real
  • Painting
  • Enough

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

  

  Chet Raymo
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