Ben Bernanke Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I'm not a party person.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
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I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
