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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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 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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
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To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.
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The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
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Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.
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I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
