Tyler Cowen Quotes
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
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You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
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Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
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I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'
