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Author:Kevin Smith

“The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.”

Ifs World Kind Country Problem Cutting Modern Easier Rate Shock Regulation Wages Floating Euro

Author:Milton Friedman

“A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.”

Kind Doe Seems Stuff Cutting Pages Ordinary Backwards Storyteller Tense Modernism Shuffle Present Tense

Author:Philip Pullman

“I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.”

Ifs Thinking Children Hands Cutting Fairs Cutting Off

Author:Tucker Carlson

“In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.”

People Giving Past Artist Next Pay Records Cutting Majors Prepared Albums Stores Labels Buying Tunes Be Prepared Next Day Marketplace Cds Exposing Record Stores

Author:Chuck D

“China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.”

Thinking Want Ideas Soul Government Loses Technology Cutting Expression Regret Edges China Nevertheless Suicidal Freedom Of Expression Cutting Edge

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!”

Said Cutting Fashion Bowls Nineteen Hairdos

Author:Agnes Varda

“I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.”

People Made Cutting Hair Gods Will Chinese Take Me Old People Braids

Author:Agnes Varda

“Then I will tape the sets and even though I`m not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat and put the jokes closer together.”

Trying Sometimes Humor Funny Together Successful Cutting Jokes Fats Tape

Author:David Cross

“I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."”

Knows Should I Can Two Humor Funny Together Stuff Loses Break Forever Cutting Rocks Fine Paper Thirds Destroyed Damage Take Me Bent Break Through Back Together Dynamite Scissors

Author:Demetri Martin

“I tell ya, I don't get no respect ... Last week, my wife told me that she was going to cut me down to twice a month. But I thought about it, and I figured that it wasn't too bad. I know a couple of guys that she cut out completely.”

Knows Humor Funny Lasts Guy Cutting Wife Week Months Couple My Wife No Respect

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.”

Important Political Views Cutting Areas Faults Architecture Factors Neighborhood Neglect

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.”

Ifs Has Beens Humor Funny Rooms Laughing Cutting Office Examination

Book:Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

“Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!”

Humor Eye Funny Lasts Millions Cutting Bird Tiny Tricks Temples Hitting Pie Last Time Flew Cutters

Author:Noel Fielding

“I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.”

Years Looks Christian Courses Father Born Struggle Cutting Students Projects Years Ago Backgrounds Intense Cult Manhattan Born Again Fundamentalist Manhattan Project

Author:Anne Waldman

“I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.”

People Cutting Upset Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Anne Waldman

“I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.”

Believe Kind Enough Bigs I Believe Space Cases Cutting Sea Tendencies Fascism Sailing Enjoyable Egoism

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.”

Problem Bigs Seems Might Jobs Animal Pay Cutting Ocean Climate Climate Change University Fishes Quitting Conservation Threatening Bully

Author:Mark Powell

“Some of my best friends are tattooed from head to toe. Some would never think of it. Some are rocking a mullet and a moustache and others are clean cut. It's funny that you don't need to speak the same language or look like someone to fit in.”

Thinking Needs Looks Speak Language Cutting Fit Clean Toes My Best Friend Tattooed Moustache Mullets

Author:Travis Pastrana

“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.”

Thinking Knows World Way Needs Wells Individual Know How Cutting Subjects Tradition Asking Assumption Islamic Secular Asking Questions

Author:Talal Asad

“The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.”

Successful Cutting Produce Cost Workers Contradiction Capitalist

Author:Richard D. Wolff

“And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing.”

Ifs Art Form Audience Cutting Performances Cameras Video Performing One Time Printed Performing Arts Video Cameras

Author:James Arthur

“What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.”

People Way Want Mean Doe Government Pain Political Politics Cutting Citizens Involved Republican Cost Taxes Democrat Average Spending Tax Cuts Government Spending Spending Less

Author:Theodore J. Forstmann

“Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."”

Should Funny Comedy Cutting Calling Messages Machines Freak Answering Machines

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"”

“There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.”

Motivational Jobs Interest Cutting Europe Mergers

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.”

Inspirational Heart Deals Cutting Seeking Strategic Rationale

Author:Jack Welch

“I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.”

Writing Trying Long Book Matter Hard Cutting Reader Narrative Bored Slow Down

Author:Chevy Stevens

“When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.”

Years Firsts Children Littles Film Order Steps Cutting My Friends Red Glasses Boxes Eight Cinema First Steps Discs

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.”

Important Cutting Example Europe Finals Cinema Marvellous Important Words

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.”

Heart Self Games Cutting Violence Mortals Japan Rip Mortal Kombat

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that's what works for me.”

Writing Trying Heart Cutting Honest Degrees Ambition Being Honest Awkward Crap

Author:Max Bemis

“In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.”

Thinking Trying Years Looks Would Be Form Order Sports Cutting Car Findings Busy Be Good Manage Routine Formulas Racing Riding Testing Skiing

Author:Liz Halliday

“Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.”

Home Cutting Rocks Band Teeth Metals Punk Punk Rock

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.”

People Thinking Knows Years Made Ideas Real Results Cutting Possibility Studios Significant Crippled

Author:Brian Eno

“The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.”

Art Action Actors Force Perfect Acting Environment Focus Cutting Exercise Logic Fellows Surprise Dependent Parallels Thrilling

Author:Ben Kingsley

“You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.”

Ifs Use Pay Cutting Building Wall Fairs Dollars Oil Mexico Cents Barrels

Author:Eric Bolling

“I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.”

Different Remember Forget Rooms Saws Cutting Products Scene Finals Versions Snicket Often Can

Author:Daniel Handler

“The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.”

Needs Writing Mind Creative Cutting Discipline Boundaries Memoir Transformed Editing Ruthless Scrutiny Creative Mind

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.”

Feels I Can Home Earth Cutting Rocks Red Rivers Desert Landscape Valleys Southern Exposed Castles Colorado Utah Colorado River Sandstone Southern Utah

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity.”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).”

Men Looks Soul Body Passion Sin Cutting Humility Praying Forgiveness Blessed Forgiving Hardship Toil Praying To God

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.”

“In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.”

Men Inspirational Doe Christian Religious Cutting Harm Orthodox

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.”

Inspirational Body Christian Spiritual Passion Religious Cutting Source Orthodox Temperance

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.”

Men Inspirational Firsts Christian Spiritual Suffering Passion Religious Sin Cutting Humility Latter Orthodox

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.”

Want Wells Humor Wanted Law Mother Guy Next Cutting Dog Months Welcome Tails In-laws Indication Visiting Mother In Law Vets

Author:Karel Capek

“Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.”

May Mean Cutting Materials Essentials Unique Busy Simplicity Distraction Stressed Too Busy Fragmented Taking Charge Unique Life

Author:Duane Elgin

“We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.”

Needs Cutting India Governance Subsidies Leakage

Author:Narendra Modi

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