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 was talking to Cecil Castellucci, who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
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I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.
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I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
