Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Joseph Stiglitz

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The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'

Jerry Lewis

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There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

Andrew Wiles

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I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Michael Biehn

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I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.

Lucas Till

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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Douglas Brinkley

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I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

Chris Rock

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I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

Brie Larson

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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Alice Oswald

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The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.

Sheila E.

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Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

Richard O'Brien

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I've come to regard the superior end of HBO drama as, above all, novelistic.

Richard K. Morgan

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