Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes

Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
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• Defending peace is the duty of all.

  

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• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

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• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
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• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

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• The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

  

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• I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

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• Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

  

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• To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.

  

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• I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

  

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• It was kind of fun being the headliners.

  

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• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

  

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• I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

  

  Lisa Leslie
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• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • History
  • Economic
  • Students