Tyler Cowen Quotes

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

Tyler Cowen

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Stop
  • Passion

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Poverty
  • Understand
  • Shows

• It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

  

  John Boyega
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • High
  • Perfect

• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Work
  • Way
  • Feel

• 'Anne, my sister Anne, do you see nothing coming?''I see nothing but the sun that makes everything dusty, and the grass that grows green.'

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Sun
  • Green
  • Sister

• Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Good
  • She
  • Luck

• At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

  

  Tyler Cowen
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  • Guy
  • Wife