Michael Spence Quotes

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked.

Michael Spence

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I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

Andre Previn

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

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Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Roger Mudd

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I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

Roger Rees

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I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

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When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.

Mickey Cochrane

WorkGoodMyselfMoneyEasyOnly

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Don Rickles

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I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Diana Nyad

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I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

Chris Eigeman

TimeMeFreeBrooklynWantNothing

The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

Clayton M. Christensen

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