Elinor Ostrom Quotes
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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People love to be told what they know already.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.
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I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.
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I remember some people after the Olympics that had no idea about horses would ask, 'Do you do that with the horse, or does the horse do it by itself?' I think the fact that you can make it look like you are doing nothing is a real talent. And it is such a massive reward at the end of it.
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
