Rick Nielsen Quotes

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.

Rick Nielsen

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The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments system. At the Fed, we have identified efficiency and safety as our most fundamental objectives, as set forth in our Policy on Payment System Risk.

Jerome Powell

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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Andrew Vachss

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There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Robert J. Flaherty

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The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

Anita Roddick

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You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.

John R. Allen

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I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job.

Stacey Dash

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Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Mona Eltahawy

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When I was a kid, I used to stay up after 'Saturday Night Live' to watch the horror shows.

Conrad Vernon

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We've been very lucky with the 'Being the Elite' crew that everyone is very passionate about pro wrestling. There's no crooks in the group. Everyone's ideas are valued. And everyone who has something they pick and put on the map, they are fully going to commit to that.

Cody Rhodes

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I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

Colin Mochrie

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We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.

Sharan Burrow

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