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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If you really want to heal our communities, more men to step it up to take care of their children. Safe neighbors happen when fathers and mothers are at home.
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I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.
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Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.
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When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
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If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.
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Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.
