Edmund Phelps Quotes

One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.

Edmund Phelps

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Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

Joe Barton

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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Johannes Kepler

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Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Stephen Jay Gould

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In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

Tom Sturridge

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I didn't want to commit to a TV show.

Robin Wright

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I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

Roustam Tariko

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Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Denis O'Hare

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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Bobby Darin

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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Alma Guillermoprieto

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I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

Alison Goldfrapp

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As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

Sharon Salzberg

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