Douglass North Quotes

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

Jewel

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I had a bulletin board in my bedroom with every picture of Leo ever taken - keep in mind, this was pre-'Titanic' and pre-Us Weekly, practically pre-Internet. I had to buy 'The Leonardo DiCaprio Album' and cut out my favorite pics.

Jenny Han

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There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Robert Mankoff

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I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters

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I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Rose Schneiderman

BusinessDoingDownOthersHardTwo

If you want to get into the shoes of someone, it's not just about seeing and hearing. It is also about what you touch and what you smell. Smell is so specific and so powerful. And this is the beauty of immersive theatre - it's something you cannot get in any other art form. I think this is the real future for theatre.

Lucien Bourjeily

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A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Judith McNaught

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I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

Allu Arjun

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When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

Tituss Burgess

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I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing.

Ryan Lewis

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People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

Kerli

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