Eric Maskin Quotes

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

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• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Innovation
  • Greatest

• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Virtues
  • Himself
  • Cardinal

• 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.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Honest
  • Nostalgia

• 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.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Look
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Line
  • Halfway

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Kids
  • America

• Beautiful language! Love's peculiar, own,But only to the spring and summer known.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Beautiful
  • Summer
  • Spring

• 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.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Reality

• 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!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Good

• But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Movie

• I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

  

  James Rothman
  • Happy
  • Suffering

• I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Movie

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Science
  • Small

• Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Ambition
  • Rise

• Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Government
  • Laws

• I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

  

  Eric Maskin