Arthur Cecil Pigou Quotes
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
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I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
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It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.
