George Akerlof Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
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We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Keynesian economics has always been needed.
