Richard Thaler Quotes
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, 'Nudge for good.' Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
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I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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Jobs are changing. Jobs will be about the blending of the digital and industrial capabilities.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
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My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.
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I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
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Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
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It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.
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Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
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Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, 'Nudge for good.' Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.
