Rumaan Alam Quotes

When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.

Rumaan Alam

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The longer workers are unemployed, the greater the likelihood that their skills will erode and workers will lose attachment to the labor force, permanently damaging the economy's dynamism and potential output.

Jerome Powell

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I have competed with a friend over a guy, but I was always the one who would give in. It's not worth it to fight with a friend over a guy.

Meaghan Jette Martin

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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

Michael Bloomberg

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I went to Niagara Falls with my family when I was young, and I cried because I thought it would be bigger.

Meryl Davis

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I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

America Ferrera

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And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

Smokey Robinson

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If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

Tommy Shaw

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Dr. Dre

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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Chris Barber

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Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.

Christina Tosi

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