Tyler Cowen Quotes
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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I've been training quite hard.
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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
