Edward Lazear Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.
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But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.
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The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
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The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
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In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
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Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.
