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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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 -
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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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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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
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'...Open anything you want. Go anywhere you wish. But I absolutely forbid you to enter that little room, and if you open it so much as a crack, nothing will protect you from my wrath.'
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
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Keynesian economics has always been needed.
