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.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
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Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.
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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.
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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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.
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As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
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Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
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We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.
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As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.
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To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.
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I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.
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The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.
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Any account of the development of the international monetary system is also necessarily an account of the development of international capital markets.
