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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.
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That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.
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Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.
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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.
