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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

• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Welcome
  • West

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• I've never worried about life's big questions.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Never
  • Questions

• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • You
  • Cool

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Actor
  • Look

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I love dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Dancing

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Because
  • Been
  • Desperation

• I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Tree

• The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Need
  • Bread
  • Hood

• No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Guy
  • Picture
  • Wall

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Die
  • Like
  • Hours

• An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lion
  • Optimist
  • Scenery

• I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Hip Hop
  • Approach
  • Big

• World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • Question
  • First

• My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Joy
  • Mean
  • Flower

• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

  

  Lord Byron
  • I Think
  • Vice
  • Avarice

• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • School
  • Friends

• I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

  

  Lyle Kessler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

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