"What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong."

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Source : "What Do You Call An Economist With A Prediction? Wrong" by Robert Kuttner, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 1999.

Robert Kuttner

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“Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.”
“My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.”
“If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.”
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
“Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.”
“I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.”
“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”
“In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.”

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