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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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.
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In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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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.
