James Mirrlees Quotes

The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.

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• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Like
  • Directing

• My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Hair
  • Down
  • Blow

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Live
  • Small
  • Day

• Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• You need friends, especially in the theatre, you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Together

• Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Responsibility

• If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Hope
  • Identity

• I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

  

  Joanna Going

• Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins

• We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Trying
  • Ignore

• Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

  

  David Blaine
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Sexy

• Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Beautiful
  • Smart
  • Natural

• I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Writing
  • Nature

• The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.

  

  James Mirrlees