John Harsanyi Quotes
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
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It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
