Amity Shlaes Quotes

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

ViewYouWrongEconomySomething

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

Joanna Coles

LifeWorkHomeTimeLookEarth

If you're lying, you're lying.

John C. Maxwell

YouLying

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

Joel Coen

CommunityGrowing UpInfluenceYou

I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

Jens Lekman

MusicMeControlBetterMoreWrite

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Melanie Griffith

KingSpainThen

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

AmericanLookMoviesTryBigApply

I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.

Johnny Colt

LifeMemoriesFirstUpJapanGrew

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

Amos Lee

MusicKnowFolk MusicMeansFolk

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

Stephen J. Dubner

GoodDayWritingBadGlassWill

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

FitnessDayRunThroughMilesUsed

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.

Roger Penrose

PeopleLookingThinkUniverseView

Do I want everyone in Australia to know who I am? Absolutely. But the only way I can do that is by winning fights.

Robert Whittaker

I AmWinningI CanKnowAustralia

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