Amity Shlaes Quotes

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GrowthFunPeopleEconomicsHave Fun

Logistically, moving from Miami and New Orleans all the way to Seattle isn't the easiest thing. Really, for my dog, she was kind of the biggest hurdle to get here.

Jimmy Graham

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I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

John Benjamin Hickey

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For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.

Jens Lekman

MeDemocracySocialismStandYou

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Maya Angelou

MusicPeopleGrowing UpListening

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Jeb Bush

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Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

Steve Irwin

JobMeBadKnowWhyReason

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

Simon Mainwaring

FutureSocial MediaPeopleStory

I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.

Juan Pablo Montoya

TimeRememberLostFirst TimeFirst

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Chris LeDoux

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The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton M. Christensen

TimeWritingColleaguesProcessNew

I am happy to be running a public sector bank. In times of stress, most people will always have an account with us, so, to the extent that it gives stability and faith for the people and because banking is a business of trust, it is a major advantage we have.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

BusinessFaithTrustStressI Am

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Alison Gopnik

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