David Stockman Quotes
Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.
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I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I am a Zionist.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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'Oh, to be a minion,' muttered Giac to himself dreamily. 'I was a sub-minion.'
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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Strategically, it is that same paradoxical logic that transforms victories into defeats if they merely persist long enough to pass their culminating point, whether by overextension or by bringing others into the fray, or both. And there is much more of the same, at every level of struggle, from the clash of weapons to the clash of empires, and in peace as well as in war. Always and everywhere it is the paradoxical logic of strategy that determines outcomes, whether the protagonists know of its existence or not.
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I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from a much deeper place.
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There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?
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Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs.
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When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
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Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.
