Robert C. Merton Quotes

My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

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I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

Jimmy Page

LearningMusicMeAmericanAmerica

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

John Crowley

LifeRulesRealisticPretendSimply

No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.

John Ortberg

PainGrowBadFindWantMature

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

Robert Jarvik

DoctorTakeGladMostMedicinesDad

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

MyselfPerfectTargetPrettyFar

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Truman Capote

LifeChildhoodRegretLonelyMajor

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

Tony Blair

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Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.

Rose George

SafetyFlyLaborFlagCruise1920s

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

Ron Fournier

MemoriesReputationNameShortWill

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

TruthStrikeTrueMoreSomething

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

DJ Qualls

LifeGreatJobFlyWorldYou

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

Christine Lahti

HeartGreatThanksSpinningShape

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