Thomas Piketty Quotes

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.

Thomas Piketty

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CommunityScienceHistoryPolitical

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Jim Dale

GoodConsistencyPerformanceActing

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

John Banville

ResilientNovelNovelists

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

John le Carre

WorldYouNeverExistenceDouble

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

Robert J. Shiller

PeopleFinancialPriceCrisisSaw

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Mavis Staples

LoveChallengeCountryKnowWayCD

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

Matthew Desmond

FamilyYouRentOutPropertyGet

Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.

Steve Rushin

StarsTimeFootballPeopleRock Star

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

Doris Lessing

NeverActiveBeenFeminist

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

Brandon Webb

ExcellenceTrainingSeriousAspire

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

Arjen Robben

MyselfWingsSometimesSidesTwo

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Antonio Banderas

PersonBelongWhoEvenCharacters

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Annabeth Gish

ImaginationI AmMeDoingWhyTake

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