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Nicholas Stern Quotes

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Nicholas Stern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 22, 1946

Topics

Government Better Understanding How

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.

Robert Lacey

Good Doing True Royal Authoritarian

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Stanley Hauerwas

Age History Trust I Am Enough Just

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Discipline Brainy Praise One Thing

I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.

Louise Wilson

Thought Horse Professional Old Years

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

Louis Zamperini

Experience Die Down Say Knowing Got

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

Liz Phair

Success Good People Me Back Early

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

Bradley Cooper

Child Me Years Pretty Manly Very

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

Bob Beckel

Money Politics American Wrong Most

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we're all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Aurora

People World Think Feeling Emotion

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy.

William M. Daley

Business Community Progress American

I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.

Pope Benedict XVI

Knowledge Science Best Reality True

My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.

Seth Moulton

Motto Win Help Back House Marines