Tyler Cowen Quotes
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
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Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.
