Raghuram Rajan Quotes
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I don't like possessions.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I find the working pattern to be the same in Bollywood as well as Tollywood. Especially because most directors of photography from the Telugu industry operate in Bollywood, too.
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I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
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The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
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The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
