Ben Bernanke Quotes
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Quotes to Explore
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
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I've always found it hard to do what I'm told - I'm not very good at conforming.
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These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
