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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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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Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
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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
