Christopher A. Sims quotes

Christopher A. Sims quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.”
-- Christopher A. Sims

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“There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.”
-- Christopher A. Sims

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“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster
“Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
“I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

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