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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Edmund White
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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.
Raf Simons
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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?'
Gabe Newell
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Tamra Davis
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
Caitlin Moran
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
Pamela Anderson
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi
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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.
Tamora Pierce
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
Madison Marlow
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
Karlie Kloss
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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.
Jackie Robinson
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali
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I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
John Madden
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It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
Jim Bunning
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
Nancy Lublin
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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
Philip Johnson
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A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.
Frank Gehry
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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.
Gary Becker