Edmund Phelps Quotes

I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

Edmund Phelps

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When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

Jennifer Egan

BookThinkLanguageLovedWeird

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Desmond Bernal

GivingWishesPlaySatisfiedBecause

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Sienna Miller

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Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest.

Simone Elkeles

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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Shirley Manson

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I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Ronnie Wood

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It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Christopher Walken

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I don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

Coy Bowles

FeetYouJumpSometimesLandGoing

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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The audience for 'World of Warcraft' is a pretty committed group of players.

Bobby Kotick

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There are good leaks and bad leaks.

Anthony Scaramucci

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My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Anne F. Beiler

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