Simon Kuznets Quotes

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

Simon Kuznets

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1901 - July 8, 1985

Topics

FatherWarParentsWorldBornLeft

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

Joan Didion

SimpleMeReadingEarlyHimStarted

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

PunishmentNationCapitalMustWorse

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Andrew Motion

AnimalPeopleThinkInteresting

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Stan Laurel

MyselfDreamFindUpWokeAwake

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

MeBeatMayGoingSomebodyBleed

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Sidney Poitier

MoreSatisfiedReturnNumberModest

I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth.

Sienna Miller

SchoolYouthMostBoarding School

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

TechnologyTimeWorldStartWill

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Bryan Cranston

IgnoranceBadCountryMannersNumber

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

Brittany Snow

DanceLovedFeelLoseLostHealthy

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Placido Domingo

SpaceNobodyStrangeTwoYearsPop

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

Shana Alexander

LifeFamilyHappyWritingYouUs

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Simon Kuznets