Ben Bernanke Quotes
Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
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Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
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Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.
