Alan Greenspan Quotes
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.
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Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
