#nfl

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 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

Inflation is taxation without legislation. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#inflation #legislation #taxation #without

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #conflict #countries #dell #each

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

#deconstruct #extent #i #i can #i think

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asset #based #economic #economic growth #experience

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#could #dream #films #growing #growing up

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. ↗

— Kenny G

#college #coltrane #i #influence #jazz

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brute #despair #essentially #evil #human