Alan Greenspan Quotes

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

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• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • House
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Something

• I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Liberty
  • Virtue
  • Vice

• Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Health

• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • She
  • Nature
  • Party

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Life
  • Society
  • Free

• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• I love Le'Veon Bell.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bell

• I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Fire

• I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • I Can
  • Beat

• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Students

• Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

  

  Pete Hoekstra

• The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

  

  James Hogg
  • Sun
  • Forest

• In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

  

  Alan Greenspan