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Vernon L. Smith Quotes

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

Vernon L. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1927

Topics

Never Meat Like Could Grinder

I'm obsessed with how people talk! Accents, dialects... So whenever I go someplace where an accent is extremely distinct - Minneapolis, New Orleans, Jamaica, Vancouver - I always find myself trying to pick up the subtleties of their patterns.

Sterling K. Brown

Myself People Trying Find Go New

Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.

Music People Game Thinking You Look

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

Innovation Competition World Fierce

The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.

Good People Battle Doubt You Know

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Character Me Finding Actor Within

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Self Easy Pretty Imagine Sense Your

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

Monique Coleman

You Touch Bend Over Get Split

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

Walk Yourself Hair Start Weird You

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

Battle Now Engage Against Must

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Christie Brinkley

Work Day Dance Think Exercise Spice

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

Death Security Taxes Property Social

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

Mirror Reflection People Me Fashion

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