Daron Acemoğlu Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll st...

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is getting people to believe the effect of your notion, and have them believe in themselves of adapting to so...

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.