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Edward C. Prescott Quotes

In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.

Edward C. Prescott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Technology Better More Economic Than

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

Window Looking Airplane Small Stand

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Travel Practice Citizenship Tool

When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

Quality Grateful Design Dead Sound

I don't think Luke Cage as a superhero is something that has changed dramatically from the '70s to now. He's a black man going through the same thing as other people of colour - it's just that he has superpowers.

Man People Black Think Now Colour

A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.

Sky Song Walking Kind Will Out

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels.

Say Ambassador Foreign About Any

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man People Master Slave May Useful

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

Fear People Me Down Play Motivates

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Music Looking Think My Own Lucky

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Depression Better Suicide Irony

People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

Morning Monday People Me Dinner

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

World Tough Fantasy Intelligent Fans

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