William Vickrey Quotes

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 21, 1914 - October 11, 1996

Topics

GovernmentBudgetRealPointSeek

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

Joanna Lumley

LifeYourselfBlameFreeRestYou

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

Jesse Ventura

GovernmentYouWorstApathyCitizens

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

Jeremy Irvine

SchoolFeelingCrowdLikeHated

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

Joe Wright

GoodHappinessTimeHappyBetter

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

Sonia Rykiel

ChangeThinkWantPlasticAnything

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

Don Bluth

DayPeopleMeWorldGameSomeone

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Chris Abani

HistoryBeginningGovernmentSchool

I am extremely passionate about what I do, and the happiest I am is when I'm on set working.

Chris Zylka

I AmPassionateWorkingHappiestSet

I would want the going-back-in-time superpower, so I could take back the stuff that I say and gets me in trouble with my wife.

Clark Gregg

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Claude Levi-Strauss

MenThinkMindsWithoutClaimAware

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

Richard N. Haass

HistoryPeaceLostMissedMiddle

I went to film school at UT Austin.

Noel Wells

SchoolFilmAustinFilm School

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