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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

  

  James Bobin
  • Funny
  • Challenge

• I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Virtue
  • Hard

• Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Single
  • Democracy
  • Doing

• Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Important

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

  

  Tyler Cowen