Ben Bernanke Quotes

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
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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.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Place
  • Loser
  • Second Place

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
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  • Own

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
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• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  

  Ralph Peters
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  • Rest

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
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  • Argument

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
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  • Working

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Virtue
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  • Sciences

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• I'm not locked into playing one guy.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Guy

• Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Time
  • Job
  • English

• The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Matter
  • Wishes

• See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that's all it is to it. They have no respect for the craft. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I worry that we're losing a certain quality, you know?

  

  James Avery
  • Movie
  • Respect
  • Quality

• September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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  • History
  • Financial