Ben Bernanke Quotes
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
-
I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
-
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
-
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
-
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
-
There will never be talking pictures.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
-
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
-
Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
-
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
-
I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
-
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
-
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
-
My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
-
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
-
Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.
-
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
-
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
-
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.
-
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
-
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
