Amity Shlaes Quotes

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

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• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Different
  • Want
  • Look

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Write
  • Someone

• In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Fear

• Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Small
  • Beach

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
  • Go

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • College
  • Band
  • Guitar

• I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Fame

• We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Revolution
  • Wind
  • Storm

• When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'

  

  Bradford Dillman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Perfect
  • Star

• One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Children

• Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • She
  • Dope

• Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Remember

• New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Wanted
  • Along

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

  

  Amity Shlaes