Eric Maskin Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
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I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
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Beautiful language! Love's peculiar, own,But only to the spring and summer known.
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We should learn from the mistakes and experiences of others, particularly from those less knowledgable than we are. If our experiences are not grounded in reality, our decisions can never be correct.
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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
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When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
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But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
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I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.
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It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.
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I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
