Alice Rivlin Quotes
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.
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Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
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I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
