Ben Bernanke Quotes
The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.
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The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
