George Akerlof Quotes
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher -
I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
Karin Slaughter -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
Ingrid Betancourt -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
Tagg Romney -
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
Laura Esquivel -
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray -
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
Oscar Levant -
I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
Ian MacKaye -
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
Yoko Ono -
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
Camille Paglia -
I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
Mandy Patinkin -
At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
Mallory Ortberg -
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
Vaclav Klaus -
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
Erica Jong -
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert -
The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
George Akerlof