Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I love to push myself.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I don't study; I create.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.
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The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
