Maurice Allais Quotes
I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
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Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
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The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.
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I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.
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There is no part of me that is not of the gods!
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.
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νόμωι (γάρ φησι) γλυκὺ καὶ νόμωι πικρόν, νόμωι θερμόν, νόμωι ψυχρόν, νόμωι χροιή, ἐτεῆι δὲ ἄτομα καὶ κενόν (Tetralogies of Thrasyllus, 9; Sext. Emp. adv. math. VII 135)
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I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
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I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.
