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Tim Harford Quotes

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1973

Topics

Today People World Better Place

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Funny Challenge Fun Think Something

For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.

Stef Wertheimer

Success Freedom Democracy Succeed

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Birthday Day Guitar Got Before

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

Yourself Picture You Seeing See Era

After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.

Health Reflection Insurance Will

We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general could use a more adversarial press corps, especially when it comes to matters of national security.

Government Push Enough Back Security

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

Speak Think Shame Ashamed Us Let Us

We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.

Always Jumping Compete Would Horses

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

Good People About Really Thing

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

Jonathan Winters

Business Art School War Painting

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

Experience Effort Climb Think Know

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Alone Time Dress Thought Weird Long

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