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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Ann Beattie

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• To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Game
  • Growth

• Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Will
  • Results
  • Uncertainty

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finding

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Up
  • Together
  • True

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Travel

• One of the hardest things is to create hope.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hope
  • Create
  • Hardest

• I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Career
  • Run

• It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Opinion
  • English

• 18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Fool

• The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Why
  • May
  • Door

• Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?!

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Dark

• It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

  

  Ann Beattie