James Mirrlees Quotes
An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Mike Bibby's my brother.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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(After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:) If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.
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Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
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I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,
