Clive Granger Quotes
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden of the mind, and I had no desire to be one of the beasts. —George Santayana
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I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
