Ben Bernanke Quotes
In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
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There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
