James M. Buchanan Quotes

The hard core in public choice can be summarized in three presuppositions: (1) methodological individualism, (2) rational choice, and (3) politics-as-exchange.

James M. Buchanan

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• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Think

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Write
  • Had
  • Them

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• I think the future takes care of itself.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Think
  • Future
  • Care

• This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Result
  • Sensitive
  • Within

• When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Know
  • Interested
  • Cause

• On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Know
  • Looking
  • Director

• Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Age

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.

  

  Adolf Bastian
  • World
  • Question
  • Burns

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.

  

  Benigno Aquino III

• I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

  

  Robert Vaughn
  • Friends
  • Remarried

• The hard core in public choice can be summarized in three presuppositions: (1) methodological individualism, (2) rational choice, and (3) politics-as-exchange.

  

  James M. Buchanan