Amity Shlaes Quotes
To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I've been things and seen places.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
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I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.
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I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.
