Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
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Cruel necessity.
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We always say, ‘Gisele’s so hot, how do we break her down?'
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Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.
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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
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I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
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I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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We had a bubble in housing.
