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Steven WRIGHT

Steven Wright

Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Steven Wright

Animal

@ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

@ Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wright

Bryan Adams (1959- )

Bryan Guy Adams, OC OBC (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actor, social activist, and photographer. As one of the world's best-selling music artists and the best-selling Canadian rock artist of all time, Adams has been one of the most successful figures of the world of popular music during last three decades and as a singer, he's known for his strong husky vocals and energetic live performances.

Quotes·Quotations by Bryan Adams

Attitude

¶ Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Adams

Björn Andrésen

Björn Andrésen (1955- )

Björn Johan Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and musician.

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@ I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian (2003-10-16)

@ My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely.
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian (2003-10-16)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Andr%C3%A9sen

Sid Vicious (1957-1979)

Sid Vicious (1957-1979)

Sid Vicious, born John Simon Ritchie, later named John Beverley (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), was an English bass guitarist and vocalist, most famous as a member of the influential punk group the Sex Pistols, and notorious for his arrest for the murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

Quotes·Quotations by Sid Vicious

Appearance

¶ The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Self-confidence

¶ I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Vicious
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Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and satirist, most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books.

Faith

@ Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 16

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams

Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)

Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)

Patrick Wayne Swayze ( /ˈsweɪziː/; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991. His film and TV career spanned 30 years.

Diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008, Swayze told Barbara Walters a year later that he was "kicking it". However, he died from the disease on September 14, 2009. His last role was the lead in an ill-fated A&E TV series, The Beast, which premiered on January 15, 2009. Due to a prolonged decline in health, Swayze was unable to promote the series. On June 15, 2009, Entertainment Tonight announced the show's cancellation.

Quotes·Quotation by Patrick Swayze

Johnny Castle from Dirty Dancing

¶ Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Swayze

Oprah Winfrey (1954- )

Oprah Winfrey (1954- )

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey on January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and an emotion-centered approach she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.

Quotes·Quotation by Oprah Winfrey

Advice

¶ What we dwell on is who we become.

Dance

¶ Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

Kate Bush (1958- )

Kate Bush (1958- )

Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on July 30, 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer; sister of John Carder Bush

Alchemy

@ What a lovely afternoon
On a cloudbusting kind of day.
We took our own 'Mystery Tour'
And got completely lost somewhere up in the hills.
And we came up on a bee-keeper,
And he said "Did you know they can change it all?"
They got alchemy.
They turn the roses into gold
They turn the lilac into honey
They're making love for the peaches.

And they'll do it,
Do it for you.

Kate Bush, in "You Want Alchemy" (B-side of "The Red Shoes" single) (4 April 1994)

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@ Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance — you know, football stars and theatre stars — It is man-made so the press can feed off it.
Profiles in Rock interview (December 1980)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush

Nicolas Sarkozy (1955- )

Nicolas Sarkozy (1955- )

Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced [ni.kɔ.la saʁ.kɔ.zi], born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier.

Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007).

Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France from 1983 to 2002. He was Minister of the Budget in the government of Édouard Balladur (RPR, predecessor of the UMP) during François Mitterrand's last term.

In foreign affairs, he has promised a strengthening of the entente cordiale with the United Kingdom and closer cooperation with the United States. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (followed by the recession and the debt crisis caused by it) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya and Syria). He also married singer-songwriter Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

Quotes·Quotation by Nicolas Sarkozy

Finance

¶ Purely financial capitalism has perverted the logic of capitalism, Financial capitalism is a system of irresponsibility and ... is amoral. It is a system where the logic of the market excuses everything. [At the Symposium "New World, New Capitalism," Paris, Jan. 9, 2009]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

Caroline Kennedy (1957- )

Caroline Kennedy (1957- )

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney, Ambassador to Japan, and member of the Kennedy family. She is the only living child of U.S. President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier.

At the time of her father's presidency, she was a young child; after his assassination in November 1963, her family settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended school. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Kennedy's professional life has spanned law and politics as well as education and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy and co-authored two books on civil liberties with Ellen Alderman.

In the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President early in the primary race; she later stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama's selection of then-Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but she later withdrew from consideration, citing "personal reasons".

Quotes·Quotations by Caroline Kennedy

Japan

¶ The United States is disappointed that Japan's leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbors. (Dec 26, 2013)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy

Jamie Dimon (1956- )

Jamie Dimon (1956- )

James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) is an American business executive. He is the current chairman, president and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and previously served as a Class A director of the Board of Directors of the New York Federal Reserve, a three year term which started January 2007. Dimon was named to Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. He was also named to Institutional Investor's Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey from 2008 through 2011. He was named the CEO of the Year in 2011.

He received a US $23 million pay package for FY 2011, more than any other bank CEO in the United States.

Quotes·Quotation by Jamie Dimon

Finance·Money

¶ But the result of the financial reform has not been intelligent design. Simplicity, clarity and speed would be better for the system and better for the economy. [in his annual letter to shareholders, April 4, 2012]

¶ It is JPMorgan's responsibility to "stay actively engaged" in policy debates that will affect our company" and that doing so is a "constitutional right." You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way. [in his annual letter to shareholders, April 4, 2012]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Dimon

CHOO Kyu-ho (1952- )

CHOO Kyu-ho

Choo Kyu-ho (추규호, born August 21, 1952) was a Korean Governor.

Quotes·Quotations by CHOO Kyu-ho

Dokdo

¶ We reaffirmed our unswerving position that Dokdo (or Takeshima) is our(Korean) territory given authoritative historical evidence, geographical facts and international law.

CHO Tae-young (1958- )

CHO Tae-young (1958- )

Cho Yae-young (조태영, born May 19, 1958) was a Korean Governor.

Quotes·Quotations by CHO Tae-young

Dokdo

¶ The Government of the Republic of Korea once again makes clear the plain fact that Dokdo is an indigenous territory of the ROK over which it exercises full territorial sovereignty.

Bill Gates (1955- )

Bill Gates (1955- )

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.[1]

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

Quotes·Quotation by Bill Gates

Behavior

¶ We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Life

¶ Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Science

¶ If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

¶ You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Season

¶ Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Tool

¶ I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Gates in 2023

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Ben Bernanke (1953- )

Ben Bernanke (1953- )

Ben Shalom Bernanke (English pronunciation: /bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist, and the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. During his tenure as Chairman, Bernanke has overseen the response of the Federal Reserve to late-2000s financial crisis.

Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and was chair of the Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave. From 2002 until 2005, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Here he outlined the Bernanke Doctrine and first spoke of the Great Moderation, where he postulated that we are in a new era, where modern macroeconomic policy has decreased the volatility of the business cycle. He then served as Chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush appointed him to be Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve on February 1, 2006. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as Chairman on January 28, 2010, after being nominated by President Barack Obama.

Quotes·Quotation by Ben Bernanke

Finance, Finance·Money

¶ The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and, hence, positive inflation. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ The U.S. government is not going to print money and distribute it willy-nilly ... although there are policies that approximate this behavior. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ A central bank should always be able to generate inflation, even when the short-term nominal interest rate is zero ...[this] more direct method, which I personally prefer, would be for the Fed to announce ceilings for yields on all longer-maturity Treasury debt. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ This devaluation and the rapid increase in money supply ... ended the U.S. deflation remarkably quickly. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ The Fed has the authority to buy foreign government debt, as well as domestic government debt. Potentially, this class of assets offers huge scope for Fed operations, as the quantity of foreign assets eligible for purchase by the Fed is several times the stock of U.S. government debt. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money. [Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002]

¶ To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above. [Ben Bernanke, Speech given on Apr. 7, 2010 to the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, "Economic Challenges: Past, Present and Future"]

¶ And so yeah, I'm sleeping a little better, but again, I think it's really important not to be complacent. We have a long way to go, a lot of work to do, and we're going to keep doing that. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

¶ We're not paying any attention to election calendars or political debates. We're looking at the economy. We want to make the right decision. We want to do it without political pressure, and that's what we're going to do. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

Nerd

¶ I am very proud of my nerd-dom. In fact, the world needs more nerds. Nerds, you know, create more jobs and advance science and I hope make good economic policy but that remains to be seen. [in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer on "World News," 03/27/2012]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke

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