#lon

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine. ↗

— Evan Davis

#being #being funny #believes #confidence #everyone

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#dark #enough #ethnic #fat #old

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. ↗

— Miles Davis

#like #long #long time #play #sometimes

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle. ↗

— Patti Davis

#circle #come #earth #enough #full

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#expression #infuse #life #means #music

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#always #been #decades #during #frank

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bacteria #cells #colony #creatures #each

You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#get #guys #know #possible #together

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#because #being #catalyst #coming #down