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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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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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 do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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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 hate to travel with stuff.
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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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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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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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We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.
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'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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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.
