Ben Bernanke Quotes

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

Ben Bernanke

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• How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Book
  • Want
  • Decision

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Think
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce

• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Never
  • Deep
  • Innocent

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Art
  • Loved
  • Just

• I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Different

• Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Growing

• It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against 'Blue Velvet.'

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Forever
  • Vision
  • Blue

• There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Important

• There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.

  

  Jason Day
  • World

• My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

  

  Liu Wen
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.

  

  Maud Welzen
  • Sleep
  • Paris

• I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

  

  Jillian Rose Reed
  • Beach
  • Bike

• I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Vegas

• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Baby
  • Model
  • Feminist

• The more we love our earth, the more we love our life.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Life
  • Love
  • Earth

• Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Picture
  • Injustice
  • Cash

• No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Cash
  • Creditors
  • Interest Rate