Alex Tabarrok Quotes
The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I don't judge my characters.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I do not like violence.
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
