Alan Greenspan Quotes
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
Quotes to Explore
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
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I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!
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I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
