James Mirrlees Quotes

An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,

James Mirrlees

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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.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Numbers

• 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.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Excellence

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Tell

• 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.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Business
  • Philosophy

• 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.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Lord

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Night
  • Free

• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• 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.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Mind
  • May

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Rules

• 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Important
  • Family
  • Most

• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Drunk

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• (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.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Heart

• It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Power
  • Model

• The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mind
  • Blows
  • Reprobation

• A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy
  • Kill
  • Satyagrahi

• I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Up
  • Together
  • Single

• Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • User-friendly
  • Super-expensive

• An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,

  

  James Mirrlees