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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

Result Problem Country Inequality

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Beauty Poetry Solitude Birth

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Success Politics You Remember

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

Love Work Hair Shirt

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Easy Difficult Things Some

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Time Feel Feeling Someone

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Mark Zuckerberg

People Go Us Big

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

You People Great Way

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

Love Alone Children Win

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

You Emotional Risk Anything

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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

Way Find Interesting Assumptions

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Stress Challenge Confident Authority

Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.

Funny Day Girl Children

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Funny History Truth Sometimes

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Ethics Language Accept Games

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

Mathematics People Children Speak

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

You Most Ever Heard

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Life Me Back Prove

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

Car You Country Small

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Naughty Thought Always Photography

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Hate Doing Just Most

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Stanley Hauerwas

Delight Take Confess Postmodernism

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Good Hope World Think

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Know Doing Wrong Wrong Thing

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

You Giving View Language

Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.

Democracy Process Special Minority

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