Eric Maskin Quotes

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

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• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Best

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kids
  • Loved
  • Films

• I guess music is very global.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Very
  • Global

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Unity

• I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Wonder

• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Class
  • Few

• I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Thinking
  • Wonder
  • Balance

• The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Question
  • Military
  • Independent

• In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • World
  • Hope