Edmund Phelps Quotes
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
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In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity.
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I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
