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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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 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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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
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George Saunders is a complete genius.
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Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.
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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.
