#first

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#equilibrium #expectations #first #function #likelihood

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#first #luck #others #out #people

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#drawing #first #human #human being #writing

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. ↗

— Dan Savage

#conformist #first #gender #goes #kindergarten

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. ↗

— Dan Savage

#culture #first #gay #gay rights #going

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#been #ever #first #generally #good

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#becoming #court #ends #first #first time

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#audience #big #bought #channel #explosion

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#dumb #first #i #piano #repressive