Eric Kierans Quotes

Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.

Eric Kierans

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Remember
  • Model

• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Imagination
  • Better
  • Memory

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Innovation

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I stuck my dick in this game like a rapist. They call me 'Slim Roethlisberger'!

  

  Eminem
  • Game

• A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Kids
  • Gay

• Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Great
  • Past

• I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • World
  • Rest

• Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • American

• My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just 'cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that's obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.

  

  Kehlani
  • She
  • Game
  • Strong

• I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Wonder

• The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Understand
  • Discourse

• I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Popular

• I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Like
  • Things
  • Not Good

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.

  

  Eric Kierans
  • Control
  • Wealth
  • Ownership