Gavyn Davies Quotes
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I hate competition.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
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All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
