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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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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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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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.
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Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
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I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.
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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.
