Edmund Phelps Quotes

I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.

Edmund Phelps

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

Jo Brand

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I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

John McAfee

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The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Quick

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Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Steve Carell

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When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.

Soccer Mommy

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Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made.

Robin Leach

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I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Mike Tyson

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I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

Martin Parr

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Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

Judah Friedlander

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I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

Jay Mohr

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The media's about to become a lot more effective.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.

Debra Stephenson

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