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James Tobin Quotes

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002

Topics

City Plan New Chairman Haven Served

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

Government Law Done Bureaucracy Been

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

Looking Help Depend Guy Our Dire

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Simon Travaglia

Change Fear Personality Think

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Work Love Complexity I Love

I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.

God Power Law Brain Thank God Learn

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

I Am Moral Dictator Amnesia Am Dies

I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.

Life Home Live Day Job Thought

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

Jonathan Levine

Learning Good Best School Better

We get all excited about collaborations. You get excited to hear that Rihanna has something, because Rihanna is a singer, and she has amazing fashion. You want to see what she would create. I don't get upset and think, 'Someone else is going to do better than me.' You're like, 'Oh, good for her.'

Good Amazing Me Fashion Better You

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

Chrystia Freeland

Slow Impact Changes Hard Dramatic

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Brigitte Nielsen

Love Mother Girl Best Woman Baby

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

Insomnia Prefer

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