Matthew Yglesias Quotes

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

Matthew Yglesias

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FamilyPeopleLongYouLoseLooks

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

John Eldredge

PersonalityMePersonTrueNeverHe

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Max Eastman

PeopleSituationStatus QuoStatus

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Robert Goulet

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It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

Jeff Ament

GreatVacationPeopleCoolWorld

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

Stephen Marley

FatherMusicMyselfI AmPlaceMust

Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river.

Sissy Spacek

LifeWorkFamilyYourselfRiverYou

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake.

Soccer Mommy

DayPeopleThinkBrandEndFake

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

Trombone Shorty

MusicPeopleNewNothingUpGet

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.

Rolf Harris

ParentsUniverseAlwaysBeenEvery

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Mary J. Blige

LifeJourneyStoryYouNowRight

It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something.

Michael Kiwanuka

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I think that less presidential interference the better.

Chuck Grassley

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