George Akerlof Quotes
The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.George Akerlof
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Patrick Duffy -
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith -
There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
Kate Reardon -
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
Edith Piaf -
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit -
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
Kaley Cuoco -
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
Nancy Kerrigan -
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden -
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell -
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Uma Thurman -
Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
Mackenzie Astin -
Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts -
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
Adam Driver -
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
J Mascis -
We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
Carl Honore -
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.
Phillip Lim
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My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
Hedda Sterne -
Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
Elena Ferrante -
Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
Nicola Barker -
The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.
George Akerlof