George Akerlof Quotes

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Makes
  • Cross
  • Carelessness

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

  Ovid
  • Fortune
  • Prayers
  • Cowards

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Popular

• Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• It's up to the audience. It always has been.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Up
  • Always
  • Audience

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • School
  • London

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Like
  • Point

• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • American
  • English
  • Born

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Funny

• Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Heart
  • Pretty
  • Kissing

• The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

  

  Glen Campbell

• I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

  

  George Akerlof
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