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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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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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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As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.
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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.
