Tyler Cowen Quotes
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.Tyler Cowen
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
Gamaliel Bailey -
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen -
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming -
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
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Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig -
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn -
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
Zach Anner -
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell -
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat -
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
Lady Gaga -
I just can't read music.
Kate Smith
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I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.
Brendan Sexton III -
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
Adam Pally -
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard -
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy -
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
Jeaniene Frost -
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.
Tyler Cowen