Douglass North Quotes

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

Douglass North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolWarLawStrongFeelingWant

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

Jenny McCarthy

GirlCuteFireHairInsideHard

I have a curious mind.

Mauro Ranallo

CuriousMind

What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.

Matthew Reilly

BelieveThinkLanguageEnoughWay

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

Jean Shepherd

MeKidSomethingHappenedReminds

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

John Sandford

ProblemsYouKindAwareCauseThing

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

Sonam Kapoor

LifeChildhoodImaginationWeirdNow

One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at the home screen, there's the Slack icon. You know when you tap this one, it's all the people you work with, and it's only the people you work with. And that's a big advantage.

Stewart Butterfield

WorkHomePeopleThinkYouLook

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

Missy Elliott

LoveMyselfFunPeopleMeSomeone

I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.

Lucy Powell

WorkTimeBabyShortDoingBorn

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joshua Foer

JourneyMemorySpaceMindEyeYou

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Christopher Lee

MoreFirstMetalCourseAlbumSang

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

MenLostWillReasonTyrantsGive

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