Edmund Phelps Quotes

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

Edmund Phelps

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Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Jimmy Iovine

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I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.

John Anderson

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I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!

Jennifer Grant

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Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

Jennifer Hyman

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I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.

Simon Conway Morris

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I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

Robert Blake

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'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

Mike Gallagher

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A king should die on his feet.

Louis XVIII of France

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You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

Derek Walcott

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The same song on a different day was a different song.

Bob Weir

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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

Anne McCaffrey

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

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