Dean Baker Quotes
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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I don't want to repeat my mistakes.
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Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.
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Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.
