Tyler Cowen Quotes
I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.
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On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
