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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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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It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
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Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
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We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
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Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
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You can't spend your way to prosperity.
