As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.
~By John Redwood ~
The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.
~By Diane Douglas ~
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Tim Roth ~
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
~By Mike Tyson ~
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
~By Bo Gritz ~
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
~By Glenn Ford ~
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
~By Barry Commoner ~
I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.
~By Edward Grey ~
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.
~By John Pistole ~
In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
~By John Edward ~
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
~By Peter Garrett ~
Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
~By Fred Upton ~
I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.
~By Sarah Polley ~
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
~By Paul Tillich ~
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
~By Jean Racine ~
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
~By William Ames ~
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
~By John Harrison ~
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~By Eric Berne ~
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
~By Raul Julia ~
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned.
~By Helen Suzman ~
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
~By Denzel Washington ~
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
~By Albert Einstein ~
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
~By Liv Ullman ~
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
~By James Hillman ~
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
~By Yoko Ono ~
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
~By Ethel Merman ~
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
~By John Le Carre ~
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
~By Michael Pollan ~
The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.
~By David Selby ~
Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
~By Gilles Duceppe ~
We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
~By Bill Shuster ~
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
~By Dan Quayle ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
~By Lucy Liu ~
The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.
~By Rex Hunt ~
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
~By Penelope Lively ~
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
~By Donald Evans ~
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
~By John Abizaid ~
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~By Norman Cousins ~
It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.
~By Rene Cassin ~
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
~By Confucius ~
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
~By Paul Ryan ~
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
~By Mikhail Khodorkovsky ~
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
~By John Hull ~
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
~By Jane Austen ~
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
~By Peter Jennings ~
But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
~By Norman Lamm ~
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
~By Paul Berg ~
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.
~By Jamie Muir ~
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
~By Rand Paul ~
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
~By David Bailey ~
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
~By Thomas More ~
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~By Charles Kettering ~
How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.
~By James T. Walsh ~
Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
~By Mike Rogers ~
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
~By Aeschylus ~
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
~By Jon Secada ~
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
~By Charles de Lint ~
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
~By George Carlin ~
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
~By Travis Barker ~
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
~By Amir Butler ~
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
~By Len Wein ~
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
~By Betty Buckley ~
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
~By James Levine ~
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
~By David Korten ~
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
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