Edmund Phelps Quotes

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Edmund Phelps

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FatherChallengeCollegeEconomics

In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

BusinessTechnologyPeopleInternet

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

John Ortberg

BestMeWorstOutBringWell

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

Jeff Bridges

LifeLiveYourselfWorldSociety

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

Stephenie Meyer

GoodGirlCommunityFriendsBadUp

Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.

Stefan Molyneux

SmallForwardBackAchieveWaySame

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Joshua Oppenheimer

ExpectationsStoryGoWantMeetUp

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Dennis Rodman

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I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Bonnie Tyler

WorkFatherMotherMoneyLookingUp

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?

Anne Robinson

MirrorYouWallDumbest

I lived in the States from 1996 till 2000. I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1997. But I wasn't the most hard-working student. I rarely went to school. At that time, I seriously doubted that you could learn creativity in school. Music isn't something you can just learn from other people. Sometimes I regret missing classes.

Psy

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I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas J. Sargent

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Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

Richard Stallman

GoodTechnologyEasySharingDigital

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