Alvin E. Roth Quotes
Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always played to win.
-
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
-
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
-
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
-
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
-
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
-
I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
-
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
-
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
-
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
-
I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
-
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
-
I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
-
I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
-
One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
-
There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
-
It is my passion to direct movies.
-
Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.
-
When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
-
Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.
-
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
-
I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
-
Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
