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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Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.
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I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
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With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.
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Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.
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Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
