#use

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #cannot #choose #close #concrete

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#besides #completely #concrete #confused #different

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #drama #get #guys #hands

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#africa #because #been #believed #circumstances

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#every #interest #military #nuclear #nuclear power