Ben Bernanke Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
