Lawrence Summers Quotes
No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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We care about margins.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
