Edward C. Prescott Quotes

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

Edward C. Prescott

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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Faith
  • Actions

• I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Gym

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Age

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• 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.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• 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.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Myself
  • More

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Want
  • Design

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• 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.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• My signature is like a squished spider.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Like
  • Signature
  • Spider

• 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.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Great
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Parents
  • Society
  • Trust

• If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

  

  Brad Stine
  • Culture
  • Nation
  • Cheese

• Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

  

  Edward C. Prescott