Edward C. Prescott Quotes
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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My hair is naturally straight, and I maintain its texture. My weekly indulgence is an egg-white and olive oil hair mask that deep-conditions and adds incredible shine.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.
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My signature is like a squished spider.
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Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.
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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
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People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.
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Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
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In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
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I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.
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Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
