Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.
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Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.
