Ben Shahn: I felt very strongly the whole social impact...

Quote	I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on. Copy
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Quote: Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
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Author:
James Hillman
Category:
Depression

Instead of seeing depression...

Quote: My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
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Author:
Al Feldstein
Category:
Depression

My father made false...

Quote: The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Author:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Category:
Depression

The financial catastrophe of...

Quote: I had a lot of depression as a kid.
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Author:
Sarah Silverman
Category:
Depression

I had a lot...

Quote: The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern expansion-depression pattern, the panic heightened interest in economic problems, and particularly those problems related to the causes and cures of depressed conditions.
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Author:
Murray Rothbard
Category:
Depression

The Panic of 1819...

Quote: I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
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Author:
Daniel Johnston
Category:
Depression

I wish I had...

Quote: I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'
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Author:
Norman Lloyd
Category:
Depression

I imagine I was...

Quote: I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
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Author:
Brad Paisley
Category:
Depression

I imagine there's a...

Quote: This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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Author:
Barry Eichengreen
Category:
Depression

This crisis of long-term...

Quote: When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally, because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty.
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Author:
Stan Wawrinka
Category:
Depression

When you win a...

Quote: When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
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Author:
Gene Wilder
Category:
Depression

When I'm not working...

Quote: Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
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Author:
Douglas Brinkley
Category:
Depression

Broadcast radio was entering...

Quote: Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.
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Author:
Jane McGonigal
Category:
Depression

Clinically speaking, depression is...

Quote: Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.
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Author:
Ben Huh
Category:
Depression

Get away from the...

Quote: But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
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Author:
Nick Rahall
Category:
Depression

But through world wars...

Quote: There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
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Author:
Whoopi Goldberg
Category:
Depression

There are roles I...

Quote: I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.
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Author:
Tyra Banks
Category:
Depression

I went from being...

Quote: The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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Author:
Shirley Manson
Category:
Depression

The truth is, I've...

Quote: America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.
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Author:
Elizabeth Warren
Category:
Depression

America had been a...

Quote: The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
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Author:
Ben Shahn
Category:
Depression

The time when I...

Quote: The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
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Author:
Ben Bernanke
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Depression

The downturn following the...

Quote: It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
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Author:
Bob Geldof
Category:
Depression

It's like you asked...

Quote: The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.
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Author:
Lindsey Stirling
Category:
Depression

The truth is that...

Quote: In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Author:
Orville Redenbacher
Category:
Depression

In the Depression we...

Quote: I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
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Author:
Spike Milligan
Category:
Depression

I don't think of...

Quote: I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
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Author:
Ron Howard
Category:
Depression

I've always been interested...

Quote: I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.
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Author:
Adrien Brody
Category:
Depression

I was depressed for...

Quote: I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
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Author:
Timothy Noah
Category:
Depression

I won't dispute that...

Quote: Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
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Author:
Amy Winehouse
Category:
Depression

Since I was 16,...

Quote: I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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Author:
Adam Ant
Category:
Depression

I have suffered from...

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