"The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game."

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Source : "Jim Himes, Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Introduces Bill To Roll Back Key Element Of Dodd-Frank". Connecticut Mirror Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2013.

Jim Himes

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“I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.”
“No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: thereâ€™s always something to be learned. Itâ€™s just that, every now and again, you hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if youâ€™re pootling aboutâ€¦ But what can you do about it? We donâ€™t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.”
“I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace”
“Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.”

Source : BiographyPersonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.”
“American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.”
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”

Source : Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.”

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