Edward C. Prescott Quotes
Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.Edward C. Prescott
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock -
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
Mandy Patinkin -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
Gavin Hood -
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
Barry Ritholtz -
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
Ram Dass
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie -
I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
Yoshihiko Noda -
I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
Irvin D. Yalom -
When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.
Jack Reynor -
I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
Ingrid Betancourt
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden -
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright -
People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
Parker Harris -
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
Ralph Kiner -
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
John Calvin -
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Richard Shelby -
If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
January Jones -
When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle.
Lee Haney -
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
Rick Pitino -
Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.
Edward C. Prescott