Douglass North Quotes

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Douglass North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestSayCaliforniaUniversity

Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

John Hurt

I AmMeActorThingsHireDifferent

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Matt Groening

FunnyMeWritingNewNowWatching

We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

Ann McLane Kuster

WorkTogetherPeopleComputersYoung

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

Jean-Michel Jarre

SeaMeWorldProblemsHumanityDead

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

Soren Skou

SeaWayMoveFarFreightMost

I write manically.

Robert Ben Garant

WriteI Write

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Roger Penrose

MomentPeopleThinkViewSome People

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Rony Abovitz

FutureBelieveNaturalShould

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Chris Bell

EthicsMeTexasCorruptionPlans

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Bob Ehrlich

WordsThroughOwnPollsActions

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Arthur Schopenhauer

DogsBeginAnythingLikeBarkMoves

I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.

Phyllida Lloyd

ThinkStandKindOutCutJust

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