Christopher A. Pissarides (Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides) Quotes
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices
