Douglass North Quotes
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring data. Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
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I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
