Tyler Cowen Quotes

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

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• By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • India
  • China

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Discovery
  • June

• Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Star

• Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • You
  • Storytelling
  • Muscles

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Short

• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Small
  • Nothing
  • Income

• Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Joy
  • Band
  • Genius

• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Best
  • Wind

• To My Friend John Sylvester, Just a few words reminding you that I have not forgotten my sick little pal. Sorry I couldn’t get out to see you but here’s hoping this little message of cheer finds you well on the road to recovery. I will try to knock you another homer maybe two today. Best regards from your friend and rooter, 'Babe' Ruth.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Today
  • Words
  • Friend

• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Broken

• The writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack of press cuttings, in Professor Angell's most recent hand; and made no pretense to literary style. What seemed to be the main document was headed 'CTHULHU CULT' in characters painstakingly printed to avoid the erroneous reading of a word so unheard-of.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Hand

• No sale de lo malo quien está en él, porque teme encontrarse... con lo malo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

  

  Amy Brenneman
  • World
  • Art
  • Remember

• By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.

  

  Om Malik

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Moral

• Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

  

  Tyler Cowen