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Robert J. Shiller Quotes

Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.

Robert J. Shiller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1946

Topics

Amazing Black Magic Will Sometime

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Joaquin Phoenix

Character Heroism Him Audience Up

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

Success Happiness Children Philosophy

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

Good Relationship Time People You

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

Family Born Royal Mental Something

My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

New York City Building Kitchen Feet

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

John W. Gardner

Excellence Greatness People Some Few

I let the game come to me. I just try to read plays. I don't like taking bad shots. I want the best shot for the team.

Best Me Team Game Bad Want

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Good Age Time Man Thinking Week

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

Possible Always Encouraging Simply

Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

Wynton Marsalis

Stars Day End Aesthetic Musicians

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

Money Happy Me Now Just Made

I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learned how to dance three weeks prior to making 'Step Up Revolution.' Dancing will always be fun, but MMA is something I'll never give up. I will eventually get back in the octagon and be fighting professionally again.

Never Give Up Dance Fun Step Goal

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