Barry Eichengreen Quotes

Any account of the development of the international monetary system is also necessarily an account of the development of international capital markets.

Barry Eichengreen

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• I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Been

• I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Relationship

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • More
  • Industrial

• I love receiving fan mail.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Fan
  • Mail

• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Contempt

• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feel
  • Blue
  • Start

• I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Husband
  • Enjoy

• Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Really

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I used this figure for the first time.. .It was under the influence of the pogroms. Then I painted and drew him in pictures about ghettos, surrounded by Jewish troubles, by Jewish mothers, running terrified with little children in their arms.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Time
  • Children
  • True

• You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Future
  • Science
  • Makeup

• Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Long
  • Reading

• You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

  

  Paul Allen
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • School
  • Done
  • Friends

• We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Women
  • Pride

• As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Book

• Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

  

  Leo Howard

• My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

  

  Ian Watson
  • World
  • Father
  • Law

• All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Dark

• Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Culture
  • Cool

• If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Small
  • Unknown

• I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Wife
  • Boy
  • Baby

• Any account of the development of the international monetary system is also necessarily an account of the development of international capital markets.

  

  Barry Eichengreen