“The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Th...” — Paul Samuelson Quote

“The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Think of the Kennedy triumph in the missiles crisis. Worked out fine. Khrushchev blinked and so forth. The other road, you don't want to think too hard about. You could have had nuclear missiles wiping out a tenth of the globe.”

“Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences is in fact saying a good word for all of those of my generation who have been laboring in the same vineyard.”

“An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.”

“The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.”

“In 1936, money had no important role. Interest rates were one-eighth of one-eighth of one per cent. I did some research, and I found that the interest on one million dollars of ninety-day Treasuries was $37. People didn't even bother to collect it. The Fed wasn't important.”

“I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.”

“What I don't like in my job is somebody who doesn't put forth the effort. Somebody who doesn't come to play every day.”

“I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.”

“I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.”

“It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.”

“I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.”