Eric Maskin Quotes
Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Love is an interesting thing.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.
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I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.
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My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
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Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
