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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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.
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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
