Nicholas Bloom Quotes
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
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My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.
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No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
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Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
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Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
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It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.
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Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.
