For as every great salesman knows, the more he forgets about his product and commissions in order to selflessly serve his customers, the more product he moves and the more commissions he makes.
Above all, he forgets a golden rule of public finance that he would do well to put alongside his rule on public borrowing: every tax preference is an increase in taxes on everything else.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
He feels uncomfortable, he sometimes forgets people's names, and the script for him is just not right.
Another chimed in with, when my husband gives the baby a bottle at night, he always forgets to change her diaper.
Once he meets you he never forgets you.
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He looks at the difference between conventional Treasury rates and inflation protected Treasury rates, forgets that he and his monetary authorities have used their powers to set those Treasury rates at artificially low levels, and then concludes that the market expects low inflation.
Of course, in order to use this as an argument that inflation is not a problem, he has to assume that the market has enough wisdom in it to properly gauge future inflation, but then he immediately turns around and forgets the wisdom of the markets when he overrules its price setting mechanism with an unprecedented series of operations, from open market to twist.
Or the moment's fashion sensation: the Flirtini, invented by Ruven the bartender at New York City's Guastavino's, inspired by the HBO series Sex in the City ("Everyone copies it, " he says, "but forgets the raspberries").
Lee also suffers from corporate amnesia and conveniently forgets all the bad decisions he has made and how it has hurt his Fubar colleagues.
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Sometimes one forgets how young Broad is, but he has a lot of skills.
When a man forgets his wedding anniversary the uncaring signal he sends is far more damaging and long lasting than a single incident might suggest.
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