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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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
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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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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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I've had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I'd love to knock a few of them out.
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I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
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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.
