Tyler Cowen Quotes
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
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Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
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If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
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I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
