Willem Buiter Quotes
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
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Edge is such a great guy.
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
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The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
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When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
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I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
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My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.
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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
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Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
