"It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting."

-- Ben Bernanke

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“I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.”
“Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”

Source : "The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, (p. 135), 1999.
“I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.”
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”
“Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.”
“I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.”
“Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.”
“Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.”

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