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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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
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I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
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I think we will open a portion of the Alaskan wildlife refuge (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) to drilling, ... And we absolutely must address the need for additional refining capacity.
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The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.
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I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
