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 got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
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I'm a fan of people getting together.
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I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
