Amity Shlaes Quotes

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

John Cale

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I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

John Cho

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I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!

John Lasseter

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My parents were marvelously educated people.

Stephen Fry

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There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Jason Ritter

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We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

Jose Padilha

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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Derek Walcott

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I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

Donatella Versace

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If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Brian Eno

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Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Lewis

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No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

William Shatner

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