Ben Bernanke Quotes
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
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I think political people are afraid of me.
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I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.
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I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
