Douglass North Quotes
Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms.
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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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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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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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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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'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 don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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To me, the focus (this weekend) should be the players understanding mentally that we're very capable of being a quality team. But we have to find a way to get back to the top of our game.
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The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.
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TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
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The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.
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I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
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Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms.
