Ben Bernanke Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers
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Focus on fire attack, don't do unnecessary things.
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We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.
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It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
