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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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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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
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Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.
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The Martians are always coming.
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It was a fun game to watch. Everybody just came together. Chris just did a great job of putting everybody on his back.
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Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
