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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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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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
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I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.
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The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.
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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.
