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 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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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
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I don't really watch the show ... I like to stay on the inside rather than getting on the outside.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Keynesian economics has always been needed.
