Quotes with phrase-making

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  • Bill Gross In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Beck In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Cass Sunstein Individual investors beware: If you're constantly worried about a crash, you're probably making some big mistakes - and losing a lot of money in the process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William James Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Jim Rohn It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Vita Sackville-West It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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  • Donald Rumsfeld It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Folds It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Jim Rohn It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bennett Miller It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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