Ben Bernanke Quotes
I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'
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I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
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There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
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I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.
