Ben Bernanke Quotes
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I don't go to enough movies.
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Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
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For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.
