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.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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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.
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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.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
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In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.
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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
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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.
