Kenneth Arrow Quotes

As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.

Kenneth Arrow

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Latin
  • Doors

• I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Learned
  • Irish
  • German

• Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Me
  • Feel

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Enjoy
  • Idea
  • Doing

• I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Security

• I don't think I'm a good dancer.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Good
  • Think
  • Dancer

• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hockey

• Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Disappointment

• Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

  

  Livy
  • War

• Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Movie

• 'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Powerful
  • Overcoming

• I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • School
  • City

• I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa

• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Beginning
  • Flying

• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • God
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• The attitudes of others toward a child's capacities are far more important than his possession of particular traits. The fact of any handicap is not nearly so vital as the reactions toward it of those around him.

  

  Dorothy Corkille Briggs
  • Child
  • Possession
  • Reactions

• I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in my life, but it felt so good - it was like, "Oh, you understand where I'm coming from." I was at a weird age at the time, in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.

  

  Aaron Richard Bruno Awolnation
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Song

• As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.

  

  Kenneth Arrow