#is

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#how #little #me #need #pleasure

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. ↗

— George Stigler

#columbia university #during #group #i #later

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#character #culture #few #good #his

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#american foreign policy #criticism #foreign #foreign policy #graham

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#beautiful wife #career #fellow #great #happy

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#chaos #dark #go #i #i wish

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#associations #because #channel #generations #had