Alice Rivlin Quotes
They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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War is over if you want it.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
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Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.
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They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
