Ben Bernanke Quotes
The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
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The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
