Vernon L. Smith Quotes

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

John C. Hawkes

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Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

John Grant

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In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Maya Angelou

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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

John Shadegg

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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Michael Moore

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During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Josh Young

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I think social media has been really great for me.

Anne-Marie

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I'm very happy to have set a world record in Tallinn. Estonians sure do love athletics and combined events!

Ashton Eaton

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I'm not meek at all.

Paula Radcliffe

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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Scott McCloud

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It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.

Timothy Geithner

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I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television.

Tim Daly

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