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
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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.
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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'?
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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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.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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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.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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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.
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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.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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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.
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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.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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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.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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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.
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I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
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There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.
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We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
