Douglass North Quotes
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
