David Stockman Quotes
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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I have a couture body.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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The more refined the more unhappy.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
