Alvin E. Roth Quotes
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Music is how you feel.
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I love acting.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.
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I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
