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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Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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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.
