Edward C. Prescott Quotes
The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.
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Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
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The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
