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• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Home
  • Illness
  • Cure

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • City
  • Violence

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Simple
  • Nothing
  • Egg

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Different
  • Think
  • Feeling

• In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• I believe women should be independent and have their own life. But I also think that when a couple decides to have a family, things change because you need to live in unison.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Women

• Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

  

  Imran Khan
  • War
  • Because
  • Been

• Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership

• But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Important

• The aphorism 'as a man thinketh in his heart so is he' contains the secret of life.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Heart

• Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Life
  • Important
  • Smile

• These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles.

  

  Wayne Besen
  • Religious
  • Winning
  • Lying

• When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.

  

  Anthony the Great
  • Remember
  • Sleep
  • Blessings

• Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

  

  William McKeen
  • Mother
  • Hunters

• You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

  

  Paul Dano
  • Character
  • Know
  • Filming

• The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

  

  James Chanos