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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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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I've had people come up to me, as home viewers, and tell me they were screaming at the TV, yelling at each other, yelling at the contestants.
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Keynesian economics has always been needed.
