Alan Greenspan Quotes
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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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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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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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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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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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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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.
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If people are going to give, they're going to give. And it doesn't matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it's all according to your ability.
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When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
