Richard Thaler Quotes
For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.
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Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
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I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'
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It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
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I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
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People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.
