Avinash Dixit Quotes

It may not be enough to play a game well—you must also be sure you are playing the right game.

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• For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Business
  • Together

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Believe
  • Want
  • I Believe

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Yourself
  • Loved

• I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Because
  • Disappear

• The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Great
  • Free
  • Rock

• My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Father
  • Parents

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• Working is a great distraction technique.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • Great

• If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

  

  Brian Williams
  • People
  • Giving

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• I always try to travel light.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Light
  • Travel

• There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Up
  • Leaving

• My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • People

• Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Great
  • Game

• It may not be enough to play a game well—you must also be sure you are playing the right game.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Game
  • Play
  • Right