Kevin Hassett Quotes
Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.
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The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
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6) It is easier to destroy than create. Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.
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Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a ti.
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Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.
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Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
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There's nothing wrong with fighting for the right things.
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Heels I've always loved, but a wedge is perfect, in between glamorous and a common shoe. If going to the store, why wear flip-flops when you can wear wedges?
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The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
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Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
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I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
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Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.
