Ben Bernanke Quotes
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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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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My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
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When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.
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In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
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We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
