Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.
Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
Mao Zedong's way was to make people crazy. It was like a religious cult.
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point?
You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.
'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'
I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and Iβm happy that life isnβt like that. Iβm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.
