Tyler Cowen Quotes
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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The business of America is business.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
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I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
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I think Leopard is a much better system than Windows Vista … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.
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After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
