Alvin E. Roth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
-
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
-
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
-
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
-
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
-
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
-
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
-
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
-
A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
-
Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
-
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
-
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
-
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
-
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
-
I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
-
Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
-
One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.
-
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
-
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
-
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
