Douglass North Quotes
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
Ingmar Bergman -
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
J. C. Watts -
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey -
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
Tamora Pierce -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
Adam Grant -
I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
Cam Newton -
My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
Jack Dangermond -
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
J. Maarten Troost -
We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
Zac Brown Band -
Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
J. R. Smith
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
Zhang Zhidong -
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Paddy Chayefsky -
I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
Damian Lewis -
I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
Adam DeVine
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The battle for women's rights has been largely won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone for ever. And I hope they are. I hated those strident tones that you still hear from some Women's Libbers'.
Margaret Thatcher -
I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
Gabe Paul -
You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.
Mark Skousen -
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip Massinger -
Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
Harry S Truman -
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
Douglass North