Ben Bernanke Quotes
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I'm very candid.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
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The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.
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Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.
