Edward C. Prescott Quotes
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.
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Voltaire once said: 'Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man.' With those few words he captured the essence of a purpose in life: to work, to create, to excel, and to be concerned about the world and its affairs.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
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I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.
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It felt like family from the first time we talked.
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That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we have to work out on a philosophical or moral or a mythological riddle that we need to solve. Some sort of moral conundrum that we need to place our feet on one side or the other. It's fun when we can ambiguously put those feet into the sand and let the fans discover for itself what it all means.
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But for the rest of us, we all have stories, we all have a past, and the difference between people who are effective and people who are not is this: Will you use your story, or will your story use you?
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You can't spend your way to prosperity.
