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.Dean Baker
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn -
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
Famke Janssen -
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.
Hans Vestberg -
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.
Flavor Flav -
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.
Warren Christopher -
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
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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.
D. B. Weiss -
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman -
Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
Feist -
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond -
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Natalie Portman -
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
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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.
Karen Salmansohn -
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.
Daley Thompson -
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.
Jack Dee -
I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
Karen Handel -
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost -
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeleine L'Engle
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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.
Dalai Lama -
I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on ‘Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me
Cheyenne Kimball -
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.
Dean Baker