Ben Bernanke Quotes

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

Ben Bernanke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1953

Topics

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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Jimi Hendrix

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I know everyone claims that their cast is 'really close,' but I think the bond we share in 'Newsies' is unique. In the show, these boys risk everything in the name of brotherhood, and I feel that same way about the guys in my cast.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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I just love my privacy.

Ann-Margret

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Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there's no rock on there, that's a good sign - because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.

Ann Wilson

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I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

Stephen Hunter

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James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Stephen Rodrick

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'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

Spike Jonze

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I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.

Stromae

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I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

Tony Harrison

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Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Tom Reiss

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It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Ron Fournier

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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Mary Oliver

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