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Edmund Phelps Quotes

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Opportunity People Start New Young

My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.

Joe R. Lansdale

Education Father Money Me Box Guy

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Artist Perfect German

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

Problem Competitors Global Many

Any voice where you've got to scream over a battle or whatever, that's always difficult. It's harder than it seems.

Voice Battle You Difficult Over

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Maxwell Anderson

Easy Look Liberty Nobody Will Get

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

Jefferson Davis

Power Government People Resume Birth

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

Good Movies Never Always Star

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

Life Work Brave Tough Go Out

I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.

Creative School Me Writing Book

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script.

Day Cell Phone Phone More Modern

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Business Police Fool People Better

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work Family Mother Son School High

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