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Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1966

Topics

Think Television Minds Reason Up

We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

Life Work Focus Quality People Back

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Robert J. Shiller

Think Things Seem Often Tend

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Impossible Thinking Dream Place Own

I like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me.

Me Walking Hotel Desk Where Like

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Work Love History I Am People City

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Legal Immigration Party Looks Labor

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Experience Men Childhood Wife Me

What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

Simple Political Debate Complicated

I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

Daughter Me Thought Worry Look Own

I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.

Yourself Fashion Generation Grey Two

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Nature Spiritual Plants Internet See

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

Dark Know Will Out Get Network

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