Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
