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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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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Every man paddles his own canoe.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
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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.
