David Blanchflower Quotes
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
Quotes to Explore
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There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
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I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
