Ben Bernanke Quotes
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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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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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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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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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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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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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
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San Francisco is one of the worst-dressed cities in the world, bar none.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.
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For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
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Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy.
