The notion of this ’emergency contact’ is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you’re feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing. Mary H.K. Choi Read Quote
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That’s obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions. Dambisa Moyo Read Quote
I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that’s really, really crazy but I did it. Nicolas Cage Read Quote
I wasn’t handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That’s the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Read Quote
I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like I’ve been jamming all day long. But other than that, I’m a granddad, great granddad. George Clinton Read Quote
The dream, I think, with any project is it starts with an idea, and then somebody writes it, and the writer hopes that a director comes on and makes this piece of material visual, and both the director and writer hope that they can have actors come in and bring something to it that neither one of them expected, elevating it along the way. Max Greenfield Read Quote
One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. Jacques Monod Read Quote
When I first got into the league, I just used to run. Just run the route. Really no technique to it. I really couldn’t separate myself from the defender. Rob Gronkowski Read Quote
Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy. Dominic Cummings Read Quote
