Tyler Cowen Quotes

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

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• I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

  

  Ed Case
  • Support
  • Military
  • Policy

• There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Against
  • U.S.
  • Within

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Tattoos

• Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Day

• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Peace
  • Add
  • Craftsmanship

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Law
  • Prime Minister
  • Above

• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Starting
  • Participation

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Reality

• 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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• 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
  • Science
  • Sex
  • Baseball

• Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.

  

  Mark Addy
  • Soul

• 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
  • Up
  • She

• The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

  

  Al Roker
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Moving

• I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

  

  Benjamin Martin
  • Cost
  • Sins
  • Feared

• I lost my dad back in the fall, and my dad said something to me a long time ago. He said, 'Are you happy with who you are now?' because we just had a real serious talk. And I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Then you can't regret what got you to where you are. So whatever you do and whatever mistakes you make, learn from them and grow. And just always treat people with kindness,' which I've tried to do.

  

  Dennis Haskins
  • Happy
  • Serious
  • Kindness

• Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Weakness
  • Conviction

• The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Elements
  • Middle
  • Silver

• I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Partner

• I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

  

  Tyler Cowen