Tyler Cowen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
-
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
-
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
-
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
-
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
-
Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
-
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
-
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.
-
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
-
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
-
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.'
-
The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
-
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.
-
The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.
-
The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside of the clubs as well.
-
It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
-
Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.
-
I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.
-
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
