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Alvin E. Roth Quotes

The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1951

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Great Simple Bridge Economics You

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

God Together Queen Go Try Bless

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

Will Victim Up Quote Currency Some

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

Love Death Sister She Mess Her

Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will, because going out in the street is a little bit different.

Me You Fame Street Will Out

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

Myself Wish Insult Who Religious

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

Family Greatness Mom Loved Early Go

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

Love Music Feel Enjoy Country Want

My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another.

Family Perfect Living Understand Way

Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.

Time Grow Feel Okay Well Like

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Marriage Happiness Tears End Look

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

Sharon Salzberg

Ignorance Self Violence Consequences

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?

Good Me Looking Think Good Person

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