Edward C. Prescott Quotes
A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I buy way too many books.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
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You were just a Small Bump unborn, in Four months you're brought to life.You might be left with my hair, but you'll have your Mother's eyes.I'll hold your body in my hands be as gentle as I can, but for now you're a scan of my unmade plans.Small bump, four months you are brought to life.
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If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
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If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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Quiero por lo que quise, y lo que quise, no volvería a quererlo.
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I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.
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You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.
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It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.
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The best approach to this cultural revolution is therefore through family and household, i.e. through the structure of relations between the secondhand generations. In most societies this had been impressively resistant to sudden change, though this does not mean that such structures were static.
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A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.
