Alice Rivlin Quotes

Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Death
  • Community

• New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that they started overtakes them, and they lose the ability to direct things anymore, and they become essentially riders on a wild stallion, and wherever the movement goes, wherever power takes them, they have to go along.

  

  Ken Liu
  • People
  • Power
  • Control

• The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

  

  John Wycliffe
  • Men
  • Simple
  • Understanding

• Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Time
  • Hope
  • City