Yanis Varoufakis Quotes
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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Love is the oxygen of the soul.
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The social environment interacts with brain chemistry. Manipulating a monkey into a lower position in the dominance hierarchy made his serotonin drop, while chemically enhancing serotonin elevated the rank of former subordinates.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
