Eric Maskin Quotes
Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Nothing good comes out of depression.
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
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Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
