George Stigler Quotes
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.
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When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
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I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.
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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
