Merton Miller Quotes

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

Merton Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1923 - June 3, 2000

Topics

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I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

Jim Coleman

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The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

Andrew Rosenthal

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I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

Max Winkler

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Firms that claim domain focus are late movers.

Steve Jurvetson

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The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen Merchant

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There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.

Toni Tennille

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I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

Tony Fernandes

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People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

Rob Corddry

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I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem issues. Clothes shopping stopped being fun and became a chore; I couldn't wear the curve-showing styles I loved without Spanx - and I worried that my new body would affect my training.

Michelle Carter

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I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.

Louise Nurding

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The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

Dhanush

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