Alan Greenspan Quotes
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My work... is my legacy.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
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Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.
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A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
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One day Eugène Boudin said to me, '..appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky'. I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.
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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
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She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.
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Globalization was exerting a dis-inflationary impact.
