Bubbles Quotes - Page 10

• What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.

  James Chanos

  Organization, Two, People

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• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  James Chanos

  Simple, Dubai, Office

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

  David Cassidy

  Dad, Years, Laughing

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Looks

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• Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

  James Daly

  Business, Believe, Thinking

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• I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

  Debbie Gibson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue and on Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

  Graham Nelson

  Home, Writing, Adventure

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• I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Sleep, Intelligent

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• We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Real, Home, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.

  LIZ

  Crush, Heart, Skins

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• With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.

  Bill Nighy

  Light, Black, Able

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Years, Firsts, Economy

  "Color of Money Book Club". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Credit, Levels, Back Again

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• A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Girl, Boudoir, Might

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• But where will the Fed find another bubble?

  Paul Krugman

  Feds

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• A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

  Paul Krugman

  Past, Technology, Years

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• In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Dark, Light, Sea

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• I don't really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.

  Kate Moss

  Daughter, Dog, Husband

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• Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

  Mark Zandi

  Creating, Credit, Today

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• There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

  Mark Zandi

  Real, Mistake, Past

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• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Life, Singing, Bottles

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• In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Awareness, Hinduism

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• You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

  Estella Warren

  Sports, Growing Up, Littles

  "Things are going swimmingly". Interview with Bob Strauss, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2001.

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• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Talking, Issues, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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