George Akerlof Quotes
In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.George Akerlof
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
Damian Woetzel -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams -
The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
Natasha Leggero -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
Naomi Klein -
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls -
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
Aaron Paul -
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Sam Snead -
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
Floyd Abrams -
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Joanne Rowling -
A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde -
I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
Vanessa Minnillo -
One's life has many compartments.
Harold Pinter -
We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.
Kris Carr -
People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
Carmen Dell'Orefice -
Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.
Brandon Webb -
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
David James Duncan -
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz -
In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
George Akerlof