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 think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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We care about margins.
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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 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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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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RockNet: Were you terribly uncomfortable at the recent Grammy Award Show?
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High reputation beats high similarity.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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I feel like I came to acting late in a way.
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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.
