Maurice Allais Quotes

My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 31, 1911 - October 9, 2010

Topics

LifePeopleMeEconomicsWorldFind

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

Jerry Jeff Walker

MusicCountryPlayCountry Music

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Jennifer Connelly

NatureGrowing UpGrowingKindMore

I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.

Andrew Luck

TimeSchoolMeSisterGamePlay

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

John Oates

MusicPeopleMoreRespondHonest

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Robert Smithson

WordsMentalThingsProcesses

Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.

Andy Serkis

PowerPersonalityRingWeakAble

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

Amy Hoggart

FatherPointCancerSpreadJuneHis

I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

Steven Biko

FreedomMyselfPeopleFighterAsk

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Stuart Appleby

WalkMeLovedDoingCowMilk

When I meet pastors, I'm not like, 'Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.' Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should.

Trip Lee

ThinkYouToo MuchGoMeetRapper

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

ImpossibleThoughtAchieveMust

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Jason Calacanis

WorkBusinessPeopleSayGoogle

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