Alvin E. Roth Quotes
I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
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When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
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In all this I can see but the doom of slavery. The North do not want, nor will they want, to interfere with the institution. But they will refuse for all time to give it protection unless the South shall return soon to their allegiance.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
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Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
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There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said they were going to do it with 'Tower Heist,' but they backed off when challenged by the theater owners. I understand where the theater owners are coming from on big studio movies.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.
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We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.
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I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
