Douglass North Quotes
Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms.
Quotes to Explore
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.
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We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
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As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.
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I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
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Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms.
