Kenneth Arrow Quotes
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?
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There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.
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Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
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They haven't come up with the force of nature that can stop us. Because we live to play, and no matter what it takes, we WILL find a way to make it happen. It may not be according to the original plan, but we don't care... we just wanna get out there and shake it up.
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That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
