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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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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My advice is to develop a good regimen and stick to it!
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I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
