Ben Bernanke Quotes
I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?`
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
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Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?`
