Lars Peter Hansen Quotes
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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It's like you have to save your own life, nobody is going to be your savior for you, so we have to do what we have to do, no matter what it is
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I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
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I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.
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I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
