Ha-Joon Chang Quotes
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.Ha-Joon Chang
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor -
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
Valerie Plame -
The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
Aasif Mandvi -
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
Irina Shayk -
Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
Irina Shayk
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Rachael Harris -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
Magdi Yacoub -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman -
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
Adam Clymer
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
Floyd Abrams -
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
Oriana Fallaci -
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
Warren Spector
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you discover that your old 'I,' along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.
Paulo Coelho -
I disagree with everything I used to say.
Vivienne Westwood -
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Eugene Levy -
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
Eugene Delacroix -
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.
Ha-Joon Chang