Jimmy Breslin Quotes

You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.

Jimmy Breslin

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WorkBetterYouLookWillDead

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a hugely dynamic system. They're like a transplant surgeon trying to simultaneously transplant every failing organ in someone's body.

Stephen J. Dubner

PeopleThinkSomeoneTryingBody

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

Spike Lee

AgeCreativeSurpriseEnvironmentUp

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

Simon Pegg

GunsEnglandAnyWhatsoever

The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.

Robert F. Engle

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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Tom Chatfield

WordsWorldNewInfiniteKindAgent

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Robert Walpole

WordsViewShowWholeWantingCourt

Between 'Orange' with Laverne, the show 'Transparent,' and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we're in the middle of something enormous - a transgender movement. I'm just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world.

Ruby Rose

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

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I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

Christina Hendricks

WorkCommunityHairThoughtJust

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

Cornelia Parker

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I'm just a big old nerd.

Claire Danes

OldBigJustNerd

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

William Shatner

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