Edward C. Prescott Quotes

After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

Edward C. Prescott

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I have always believed in God.

Joel Osteen

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I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

Jenson Button

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My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

Jean Louisa Kelly

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By the end of my first year at the Dogs, we'd won the competition, and I'd played some pretty good footy.

Sonny Bill Williams

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'New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

Tommy Davidson

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It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

Michael Jordan

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I don't think a lot of the news outlets examine the effect of war on a family.

Luke Macfarlane

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

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Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

Jonathan Zittrain

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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Dick Gregory

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I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.

Courtney A. Kemp

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Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.

Craig Ferguson

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