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.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Hair
  • Writer
  • Just

• I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Acting
  • Call
  • Pills

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Long
  • Present
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Success
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• 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.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

  

  Carl Sagan

• The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

  

  Jack London

• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Character
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Writing
  • America

• Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.

  

  David Chase
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Mother

• With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

  

  Jess Walter

• They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

  

  Nick Simmons
  • Help
  • Greatness
  • Generation

• I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Helping

• The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

  

  David Frum
  • People
  • True

• I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

  

  Alvin E. Roth