Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes
Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It's not really necessary; there's a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term 'Knives and Pens' to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.