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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
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• I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
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• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
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• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
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• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
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• Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Family
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• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
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• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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  • Work
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• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Mistakes
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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Age
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• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
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• The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Success
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• I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

  

  Elena Anaya
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• For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

  

  James Gleick
  • Different
  • History
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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  

  Alan Greenspan
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