Gary H. Stern Quotes
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
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As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."
