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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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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Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.
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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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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.
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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.
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He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.
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I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
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For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.
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I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.
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A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
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I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
