George Akerlof Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
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Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous.
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I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
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When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
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I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
