Alan Greenspan Quotes

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

Alan Greenspan

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It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Jim Goldberg

GoodYouFindAlwaysThingsFound

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

Jesmyn Ward

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My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

Andrew Sean Greer

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I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

John Hench

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I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Matthew Perry

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In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

Angela Merkel

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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Angus Young

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You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove

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As long as you're excellent, things work out for you.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

WorkLongYouOutThingsWork Out

One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that... parents are proud to say, 'Oh yeah, look, he wants to be like Sonny Bill Williams.'

Sonny Bill Williams

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I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

Sofia Vergara

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My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Russell M. Nelson

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