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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.


Chuck Norris


#become #champion #concentration #dues #had

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.


Chuck Norris


#episodes #except #filmed #had #half

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.


Douglass North


#conducive #done #environment #i #last

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.


Alex North


#bankrupt #commercialism #conventional #daring #fear

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.


Alex North


#combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.


Alex North


#decided #go #i #music #soviet

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.


Douglass North


#clear #did #economies #fail #find

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.


Douglass North


#i #impression #left #life #my life

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.


Douglass North


#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.


Douglass North


#around #banking #centered #dissertation #early






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