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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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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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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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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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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A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?
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I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.
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Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
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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.
