"George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature""

-- Robert Kuttner

#School Quotes #Science Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.”
“Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.”
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
“Once you’ve actually died on stage… I mean, how do you top that?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.”

Source : "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
“Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.”

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