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've been good at product entrepreneuring.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
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Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.
