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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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
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I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos.
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People have mentioned, 'Maybe you should try to be more sexy. Look at how this butt stuff propelled this person to the top of the chart; it's amazing!' And I'm like, 'What if I really want to sing something to people?' I speak my mind. I want to be that person people feel they can listen to.
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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.
