Eric Maskin Quotes
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.Eric Maskin
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
Salman Rushdie -
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
Laura Dern -
I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
Ina Garten -
I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry -
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Umberto Eco
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
D. B. Sweeney -
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn -
'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
Kaitlyn Dever -
In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
Foster Friess -
'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
Ranbir Kapoor -
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
Naomi Wolf
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I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
Kamisese Mara -
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson -
The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.
Ingmar Bergman -
When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.
Orson Scott Card -
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
W. H. Auden
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
Bill Mauldin -
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
Boyle Roche -
If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.
Kyle MacLachlan -
I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.
Brad Pitt -
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.
Hal Abelson -
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.
Eric Maskin