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Edward C. Prescott Quotes

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

Edward C. Prescott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1940

Topics

Economics Create See Economists Own

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Perseverance Practice Skill Skills

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Yourself Child Listening Place New

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Law Society Opportunities Crime

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

Michael Ondaatje

History Moment Three Coincidence

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.

Think You Look High Things Used

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Daily Heart Time Fun Child Language

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.

Life Fear End Want Kind Everything

I get anxiety from a noise or some scuffling at the side of the stage. I hear stories all the time, from as minor as Dillon Francis getting smacked in the head with a flying beer can to Dimebag Darrell.

Time Beer Flying Anxiety Stage Head

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

Interesting Glad Getting Films

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Love Me Mom Song Name Dark

People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

Medical Space People Loss Muscle

In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we're dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it's not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.

Marshall Herskovitz

Change People Society Energy Problem

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