Daniel Finkelstein Quotes
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
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You don't have to be blond or blue eyes or taller or smaller...just have to be who you need to be, and that's help people become who they are.
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A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
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I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.
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The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.
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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.
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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
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I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
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I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.
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[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
