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Edmund Phelps Quotes

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 26, 1933

Topics

People Bad People Bad Want Eat Get

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Good Numbers Years Seem Round Like

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

Love Hope Time Writing Doing Long

I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.

Love Community People Research Early

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Good Plant Reason Mankind Gifts

I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

Believe Skin Comfortable My Own Own

In my family, they were all big boozers.

Family Big Were

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.

Men People Think You Television Sex

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Writing You Know Write Going Poem

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Learning Good Painter Very Lot

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Great Civilization Without Within

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Nature God Color Earth Purple Fail

Wearing heels is no joke.

Heels Joke Wearing

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