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Leonid Hurwicz Quotes

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: polish
Birth: August 21, 1917 - June 24, 2008

Topics

Legal Behavior Rational Incompatible

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Pride Better Vanity Pampered Than

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

Work Great Food Death Lunch Suits

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Work Best Dead Some Best Work

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Me Influence Generation Attention

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

Man You Why Always Got Would

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

Writing You Bad Matter Always Guy

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

Born Scotland I Was Born Seven Moved

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

Intelligence Words Small Fake Write

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

People Present Vote Subjective Tense

Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.

Easy Information News See Fact Very

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

Live Time Three Nervous First Time

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

Power Reality Forget Embrace Minds

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