Eric Maskin Quotes

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

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• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Treat
  • Human Nature

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • House
  • Death

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• There is a reason for everything.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Reason
  • Everything

• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • May
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Yourself

• Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Brother

• Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Red

• If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Pregnancy

• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Women
  • Rock

• It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Age
  • Teenager

• I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Men
  • Real
  • Money

• The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Great
  • Long
  • Book

• The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

  

  John Mackey
  • Time
  • Good

• When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this; I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Interesting
  • Sound
  • Records

• I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

  

  Eric Maskin