Amity Shlaes Quotes
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.Amity Shlaes
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope -
U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
Carlene Carter -
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
Federico Fellini -
We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
Wayne Coyne
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies -
I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
Sam Heughan -
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet -
I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
Kate Winslet -
Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
Olivier Martinez -
There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
Patricia Velasquez
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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
Shania Twain -
I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.
David Brudnoy -
He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
Aristotle -
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
Ahmed Chalabi -
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.
Amity Shlaes