Richard Thaler Quotes

We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.

Richard Thaler

• Opportunity
• Running
• Spending
• Enormous
• Hospital

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Missing

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• -vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Law
  • Heaven

• Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

  

  James Gleick
  • Business
  • Words

• I've been wearing Red Roses since I was 22. Jo Malone London is woven into the fabric of my life, and I couldn't be happier to be working with a brand I love so much.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Life
  • Red

• Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Music
  • Pretty

• I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Sports

• My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Movie

• There's much unlocked potential in Philips.

  

  Frans van Houten

• Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

  

  James Mattis
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Path

• I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.

  

  Maren Morris
  • People
  • Mind
  • Song

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Me
  • Relationship

• I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I got a call from Buddy Arnolds, who started the program, and he said, ‘Kurt Cobain is at this hospital, and I just visited him. He would like to meet you,’ he wasn’t aware of my music… He was aware of my being a world-class junkie. He wanted to meet the junkie that got clean.

  

  Chuck Negron Three Dog Night
  • Program
  • Hospital
  • Kurt Cobain

• We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Opportunity
  • Running
  • Spending