Esther Dyson Quotes
People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther Dyson
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
Sabine Baring-Gould
I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
Action Bronson
I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
Walter Hill
A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
Dana Boente
When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
Tavi Gevinson
From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
John Hutton
A military preparedness strategy with specifics yesterday and today rolls out a school of choice plan with monetary specifics. So Donald Trump has pivoted over the last, he had a very rough go after the conventions.
Eric Bolling
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
David LaChapelle
I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.
Richard Simmons
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.
Alfie Kohn
People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther Dyson
