William Nordhaus Quotes
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Novels are longer than life.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I don’t know from one album or one song to the next what I want to say, it’s what I feel at the time is necessary to say. I just want to be who I am in the moment and continue to evolve and be fluid.
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An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
