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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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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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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We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.
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I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
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Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.
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I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
