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thinking people price-of-success
It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent. Ben Bernanke
technology people entrepreneur
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
travel journey years
Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.
two growth half
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
technology government numbers
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
technology government wish
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
thinking validation ideas
It's much nicer to be praised than to be damned. But you have to have a certain sense of your own priorities and ideas about what works and what doesn't because otherwise, if you're just looking for eternal validation all the time, you can be motivated by the wrong things and I don't think it's as personally satisfying in your own work. Ben Affleck
thinking government people
I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
thinking long use
There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
time problem promptness
I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.
tickets magazines worst
I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.
thinking pay would-be
Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.
talent being-me sometimes
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.
taken too-much firsts
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
thinking people actors
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
thinking different architecture
Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
thinking frustrated acting
After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
thinking usa president
Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
trying environment
I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.
trying be-prepared prepared
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
talking years people
He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years. Barbara Wagner
trying different
Every time, I try to make something different. Barbet Schroeder
thinking study windsor
I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right. Barbara Windsor
taken acting done
I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
thinking high-heels decision
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. Barber Conable
taste persons simplest
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things. Barbara Taylor Bradford
thinking ask-me ifs
If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.
thinking literature poetic
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. Barbara Walters
thinking interviewing-someone
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
thinking people obscure
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
tree drop-dead-gorgeous kind
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
thinking voice giving
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
thinking office matter
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.