Ben Bernanke Quotes
Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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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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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.
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I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'
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Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
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Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
