Eric Maskin Quotes
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
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That was not the way I wanted to come out and play. It was disappointing, especially the way the offense played this season. We couldn't hit any big plays or establish anything to build on. They did a good job, but I still didn't protect the ball, and that's what it comes down to in big games.
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Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.
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Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
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There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.