Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

Sendhil Mullainathan

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PeopleWorldSmallInterestingDone

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

Jim Crace

TrustStartRestYouWayTop

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

Joel Hodgson

FriendSongStoryExplainTheme

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I AmLawBuildingsRulesRepublic

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Sue Townsend

BirthdayMotherChildrenTimeSmall

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Tom Hooper

BackCulturesReflectIconicOur

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

CommunicationWordsPowerfulMankind

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Jason Robert Brown

MyselfJobPastI AmMeYou

I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.

Donna Brazile

StepMeWayAlongCounselHackers

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Bruce Jackson

IdeasConflictWorldActionTrying

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

HopeDreamWaking

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

Artie Lange

PurposeMountainSayingYouDown

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

William Greider

Do-It-YourselfVersionManyLearned

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