Ben Bernanke Quotes
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
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One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian 'Vogue.' Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, 'ugh' face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian 'Vogue.'
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When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
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So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
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No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
