Alvin E. Roth Quotes
My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I'm acting in a new show on NBC with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, which is definitely the scariest thing I've ever done.
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Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
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As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.
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Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
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My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
