Edward C. Prescott Quotes
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
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This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.
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Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
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Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
