Alan Greenspan Quotes
If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Women are sacred.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.
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Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
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The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.
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I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
