Christopher A. Pissarides (Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides) Quotes

Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

Christopher A. Pissarides

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• I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Play
  • Lucky
  • Guess

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Couple

• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Job
  • Approach
  • Losses

• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Real
  • Simple
  • Famous

• I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Play

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • War
  • Worry
  • Shooting

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Easy

• When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Beautiful
  • Cool
  • Selection

• When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Why
  • Myself

• Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Me

• At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Sense

• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Feelings
  • Gentleman

• It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Crying

• I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Intelligence
  • Evolution

• To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Addiction

• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kids
  • College
  • Tax

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices

  

  Christopher A. Pissarides
  • Price
  • Oil
  • Hostage