Alan Blinder Quotes

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Playing
  • Because
  • Tennessee

• We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Kids
  • Right

• I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • Model
  • Young

• I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Time
  • Home
  • Weird

• I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Good
  • Space
  • Sex

• As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Know

• To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Father
  • Film
  • Something

• Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Art
  • Acting
  • Fake

• I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Want
  • Career

• Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • World
  • Things
  • Innocence

• Many intellectuals here in South Korea admire the North for standing up to the world. It’s a right-wing sort of admiration, really, for a resolute state that does what it says. More common than admiration are feelings of shared ethnic identity with the North. We are perhaps too blinkered by our own globalism to understand how natural they are.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Up
  • World
  • Identity

• Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Diversity
  • Race
  • Class

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• My customers come and go, cycle in and out. They eat others' foods, too. It's cool. They move on, and they come back. My quality, in food and execution, speaks for itself.

  

  Jimmy John Liautaud
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Cool

• If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

  

  Alan Blinder
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