I’ve already lived through a default and it’s very hurtful for society. No one could want a default as a solution.
I eventually made the reunion with my father that I’d used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we’d both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.
I do not want America to default on its debt.
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don’t how to interact with people with disabilities. They’re unsure of the ‘right’ reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.
I’m no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I’ll emit an unbroken 10-minute ‘um’ through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.
It’s the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you’ve seen is typical. That’s because ‘typical’ is just another way of saying ‘most probable.’
We either live with intention or exist by default.
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
Have confidence in your own voice, be entrepreneurial, and take big risks with the knowledge that, by default of being a woman, people are going to advise you to be conservative, play it safe, make sure everyone likes you, and constantly question whether or not you’re ready to be in charge.
The only thing I could do was play music, because I’d studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in Alexandria. So I started out with two other boys in little clubs in Athens. I became a singer by default when our lead vocalist was late one night. Someone had to sing.
The U.K.’s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can’t default on it.
The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.
I’ve produced before, and sometimes it’s by default. In the indie level, you can’t just come to set and be like, ‘Oh, I’m an actor.’ You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.
My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.
Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn’t go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
There’s no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.
I’m an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world’s default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
There’s a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they’re run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they’re not playing with other people’s money, that by default it’s a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.
The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.
‘X-Force’ #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of ‘X-Force’ #2 is Deadpool. It’s not X-Force, It’s Deadpool.
There’s this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you’ve got a race if you’re black, or any kind of Asian, or any kind of Native American, but that you have no race if you are white.
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Argentina is in a virtual, hidden default.
My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is ‘no.’ I just start with ‘no.’ I let them fight for it a little bit.
The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities.
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn’t change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I’m a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
I’ve often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don’t have many old things, and we don’t really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.
The best board members aren’t elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member – which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking – are better off.
I’m a very serious guy. I try to counter that predisposition of being a serious person with all this tomfoolery that I love to do so much. I really enjoy it; that’s why I do it. I don’t like the way I am… perhaps my natural default is to be that way, and I don’t like that.
I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
One of the characteristics of New Labour – and Miliband is irredeemably of that species – is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.
It’s unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don’t have to do anything by default.
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
As far as being a plus-size woman, I play a plus-size character by default, and for me, the visibility – that, I think, is key.
I didn’t want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn’t love literature, but I couldn’t distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make – ‘derive’ – and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?
