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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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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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
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I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Philanthropy is activism.
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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.
