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		Lunchroom economic conversations are inevitably graced with at least one statement from an old-timer along the lines of, 'In my day, we walked 10 miles in the snow just to get to the recession.' In fact, the nature of recessions hasn't changed much over the years.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kevin Hassett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Malone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orlando Bloom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Widder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no such thing as a non-final cut director. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abel Ferrara 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manal al-Sharif 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Becker 
			 
			
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		People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vinny Guadagnino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17) 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marshall McLuhan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ben Bernanke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Lunchroom economic conversations are inevitably graced with at least one statement from an old-timer along the lines of, 'In my day, we walked 10 miles in the snow just to get to the recession.' In fact, the nature of recessions hasn't changed much over the years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kevin Hassett