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Gary Becker Quotes

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1930 - May 3, 2014

Topics

Stronger Lead Greater Chinese Asset

When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.

Eyes Experience Words Reading Help

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Joaquin Phoenix

Me Buildings Acting Off Somebody

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

Family Father Teacher Time Money Me

'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted to be able to touch the speakers and feel a clear sense of rhythm.

Heart Mind Feel Deaf Touch Rhythm

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

Phone Want Dead Mobile Just Case

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

Age Dance Start You Nobody Young

The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

Support Army Humanity Rules Country

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.

Stephen Graham Jones

Me Door Deep Reach Enough Uncle

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

Moment I Am Country See I See Call

I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.

Father Home Broken Amazing Believe

My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

Job News Fair Cover Accurately

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Information Person Want President

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