David Landes Quotes

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

David Landes

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• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • War
  • Day
  • Fly

• I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Bad
  • Very
  • Egypt

• Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Snooze

• I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • History
  • Amazing

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Me
  • Uncomfortable

• I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Going
  • Shaking
  • Booty

• If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • You
  • Yourself

• When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Game

• As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Gold

• I stopped making films to look after animals.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Moments
  • Adventure
  • Boat

• Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... It is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Culture
  • Crime
  • Modern slavery

• I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Culture
  • Communication
  • Approach

• If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

  

  David Landes
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Economic