Ben Bernanke Quotes

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

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• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Iceland

• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • Better
  • Healing

• Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Internet

• With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Library

• I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Easy

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • End

• Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

  

  William Tyndale
  • God
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Opinion

• 'Would that he slips with both and hits himself repeatedly in the face' Entreri muttered to Jarlaxle.'So then when he’s gone, my friend Entreri can take his place' the drow quipped back.'Shut up.''He is a powerful ally.''And a mighty enemy.''Watch him closely, then.''From behind,'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Powerful

• Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Leaving

• From the point of view of being in the public radar, comedians have less problems than other actors. Action movie stars like Stallone or Schwarzenegger usually attract the more aggressive fans.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Problems
  • Being
  • Public

• The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Powerful
  • Public
  • Accountability