Andrei Shleifer Quotes

Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• We are not communists.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Communists

• I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Always
  • Loved

• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Joy

• Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Creativity

• Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate.

  

  Om Malik
  • Free

• People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • World

• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Life
  • Death
  • Stop

• If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

  

  Will Smith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• The world is still very bigoted.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • World

• I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Kids
  • Black

• I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Book

• I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • World
  • Book

• Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

  

  John Cusack
  • Good
  • Selfless

• I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

  

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
  • Reading
  • Comic

• To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  

  Bob Hope
  • Heart
  • Charity

• The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • Public
  • Century
  • Novelists

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.

  

  Andrei Shleifer
  • Book
  • Crisis
  • Represents