Eric Maskin Quotes
Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
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Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
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I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.
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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.
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Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.
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As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
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Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
