Dale T. Mortensen Quotes
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.
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I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
