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Douglass North Quotes

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

Douglass North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1920 - November 23, 2015

Topics

Life Father Mother School I Am Boy

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

John Allison

Work Good Opportunity Good Work Grow

We all have those dreams we've never let go of. But believe it or not, sometimes a job that we're not that keen on can help us achieve those dreams or goals.

John Rampton

Goals Dreams Job Believe Help Go

If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.

Amanda Knox

Fear I Am Sheep You Guilty Innocent

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Steve Jobs

Happy Year Said Three Want Build

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

Stephen Stills

Learning Guitar Feel Play Mean Just

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

Steven Pinker

Language Own Confuse Commonly

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

Mike Pence

Father Mother God Wife Words Man

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

Chris Jericho

Writing Journalism Person Degree Who

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

Chris Squire

Music Time Classical Music Going Get

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Corazon Aquino

Power Light Support People Media

I just don't like killing creatures.

Clint Eastwood

Just Like Creatures

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

Clive Owen

Great Writing Back Go Basics Lovely