David Leonhardt Quotes
In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?
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Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
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We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
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The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
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I think you first have to get into Kim Jong-un's head, you know, which is he's in a state of paranoia. He's incredibly concerned about anything and everything around him. I think these nuclear tests were a message to South Korea after the election. So what we're going to do is continue to tighten the screws. He feels it. He absolutely feels it. And we're going to continue, whether it's sanctions, whether it's press statements, anything that we have to do.
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In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.
