George Akerlof Quotes
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I don't really yell at people.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
