Edward C. Prescott Quotes
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.
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Monetary policy causes booms and busts.
