Ben Bernanke Quotes
The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
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The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.
