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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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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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
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Nothing is as dull as constant reality.
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After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
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There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
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Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?
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Globalization was exerting a dis-inflationary impact.
