Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
