Douglass North Quotes
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.Douglass North
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
Aaron Ciechanover -
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.
Utkarsh Ambudkar -
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.
Yann Tiersen -
I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
Nate Corddry -
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.
Calvin Coolidge
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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.
Mandy Patinkin -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
Pam Grier -
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard -
I'm probably the most negative person around.
Natalie du Toit -
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.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Kate Jackson -
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
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.
Osric Chau -
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
Ted Naifeh -
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.
Ursula Andress -
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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.
Bikram Choudhury -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
Dave Itzkoff -
The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
Edith Hahn Beer -
The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
Henry David Thoreau -
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
Douglass North