Gary Becker Quotes
A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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They're targeting guys who dress like me, guys who dress hip-hop.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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We live in an epoch of denudation.
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The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)
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I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
