Alan Greenspan Quotes

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Greenspan

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• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
  • Elements

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Hope
  • Politics
  • Moderation

• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Dinner
  • Thanksgiving

• I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • People
  • Two
  • Three

• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • Found
  • Verse

• One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Genre

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • Children
  • Today

• A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Government
  • Like
  • Walking

• Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

  

  Colum McCann
  • God
  • Trying
  • Faith

• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Men
  • Women

• The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Up
  • Rock

• To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Today
  • Wise
  • Acknowledge

• I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Success
  • Stupid
  • Lessons

• We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Wonderful

• The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

  

  Alan Greenspan