Ben Bernanke Quotes
Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I've been training quite hard.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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To survive is to win.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.
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You can change your body shape by permitting yourself to exercise and eat a healthy diet and so on - and we've heard miraculous stories of people who have lost hundreds of pounds, and they look like a completely different person - but that's not the norm for the average person, and a lot of times, people don't get that way in a healthy way.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
