Eric Maskin Quotes

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

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• All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Present

• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Cat
  • Now
  • Got

• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Control
  • Choose

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • People
  • Believe
  • User

• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Success
  • You
  • Success Is

• Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Ignorance

• When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Real
  • Character

• Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Situation

• Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Favorite
  • Ralph
  • Edward

• An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

  

  Oscar Levant

• People know that they can tune in to '60 Minutes' any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • May
  • Sunday

• Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Green

• Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trust

• 'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'

  

  Lew Wasserman

• As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.

  

  Allen Boyd
  • Children
  • May
  • Happy

• Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument.

  

  Charles Petzold
  • Time
  • Different

• The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

  

  Avro Manhattan
  • Practice
  • Principles
  • Third Reich

• I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Stop

• No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

  

  Theresa May
  • Job
  • Security
  • Dealing

• Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

  

  Eric Maskin