William Vickrey Quotes
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I know about raising money.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.
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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
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A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.
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I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
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... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.
