Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
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.
Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
I was the happiest and highest-paid straight woman in the business.