Tyler Cowen Quotes
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
Tyler Cowen
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Edith Hamilton
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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.
Yann Martel
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
Edward Young
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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Mark Addy
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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.'
Princess Eugenie of York
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So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.
Daniel Kehlmann
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
Charles Durning
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That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.
Miranda July
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During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
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I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
Carrie Fisher
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I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
Tyler Cowen
