Arthur Laffer Quotes
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I like to be free.
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Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
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A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
