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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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.
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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.
