Oliver E. Williamson Quotes

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

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• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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  • End
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• I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
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  • Television
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• I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Up
  • Why
  • Want

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
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  • Friends
  • Growing

• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Step
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• I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Important
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• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Done
  • Football

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
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• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
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• I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Sing

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

  

  Yves Behar
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  • Future

• My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
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  • Beautiful

• When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Eye

• I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Words

• My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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