Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Sendhil Mullainathan

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PeopleShoppingFaceYouGoKnow

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.

Jim Rash

LifeMorningPizzaEatingFacts

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

John Sergeant Wise

ManPeopleMeChoicePossibleWould

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Stephen Ambrose

SecretSuccessfulBeingEnglish

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

Tom Waits

BuildingSomeoneYouPlaceKnow

I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat.

Mary Lou Jepsen

HatOutMachineHowFormPut

There's a greater power and charisma when a woman is aware of her sexual prowess when it's not necessarily about victimization or someone else's pleasure but her own feeling about her own body and understanding and loving herself.

Mickalene Thomas

PowerWomanUnderstandingSomeone

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

StyleWordsTruePlacesDefinition

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

HealthWomanCareInsuranceBack

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

Chris Wooding

AdventureFeelWayNeverHeroesUp

The road is a lot of work.

Christina Aguilera

WorkRoadLot

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Brian May

MusicYouCreatePlayImportantOur

We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

Tim Cook

LifeBusinessDetailDataUnderstand

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