Alex Tabarrok Quotes
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.
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My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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My gifts to causes in which I believe have almost always been anonymous.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
