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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
Aasif Mandvi
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Actor
Islam
Prize
Center
Lead Character
Lincoln
Muslim
Pulitzer
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In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
Charles H. Townes
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Cases
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Pity
Prize
Work Good People
Distractions
Rewarding
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The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
August Krogh
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Researcher
Honour
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Valuable
Tremendous
Work Me Help
Greatly
Incentive
Task
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The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.
Eric Maskin
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Drawing
Important Work
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Successful People
Valuable
Work Important People
Winners
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The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's obviously not a huge leap to think of something similar happening in fiction.
Alastair Reynolds
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Author
Citing
Leap
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Physics
Prize
Unlikely
Joint
Recipient
Similar
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Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
Peter Diamandis
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Physician
Opportunity
Space
Conversation
Flying
Passionate
Prize
Someday
Hawking
Meet
Professor
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The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell
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Debt
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Solemn
Work Science Man
Bring
Earn
Fellow
Recipient
Regarded
Reward
Scientists
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavin Hood
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Filmmaker
Excess
Expensive
Location
Prize
Hire
Production
Save
Serve
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur
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Tennis Player
Australia
Equal
Player
Prize
Prize Money
Right Thing
Tennis
Charge
Do The Right Thing
Grand
Grand Slams
Led
The Right Thing
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Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.
Israel Adesanya
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Chains
Prize
Time Good Look
Belt
Diamonds
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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Evan Hunter
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Broadway
Modest
Musical
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Aside
Award
Pulitzer
Tony
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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
Leslie Banks
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Actor
Home
Mom
Honesty
Panic
Prize
Short Story
Time Home Money
Time Mom Home
Author
Contest
Enter
Time Money Home
Lights
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Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.
Bernard Hopkins
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Boxer
Boxing
Hockey
Prize
Grand
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I have purchased a flat in Malad, but that is not with my 'Bigg Boss' prize. I had bought it with my earnings that were released by producers of 'Bhabhiji Ghar Pe Hain' just before I was offered 'Bigg Boss.'
Shilpa Shinde
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Prize
Earnings
Offered
Purchased
Released
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If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you say, 'Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,' it could make it more likely.
Vivienne Ming
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Danger
Dropping
Hey
Nobel Prize
Prize
Someday
Grade
Ninth
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Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Farmer
Family
Celestial
Desire
Determination
Diligence
Exalted
Fatherhood
Lost
Matter
Prize
Wealth
Station
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The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
Willie Geist
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Television Personality
Bed
Dave
Feet
Lightning
Mcqueen
New York Times
Prize
Snoring
Anderson
Columnist
Pulitzer
Rear
Slept
Tires
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I used to be the chief guest in all the prize distribution ceremonies of shooting competitions. I tried my hand on a lot of guns, and my aim improved. I started hitting tiny targets, like a mineral bottle cap.
Nana Patekar
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Aim
Distribution
Hitting
Prize
Shooting
Tiny
Bottle
Cap
Ceremonies
Chief
Competitions
Guns
Guest
Hand
Improved
Mineral
Targets
Tried
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I am honored to receive the TED Prize, but it's not about me; it's about our field - and the thousands of men and women around the world, particularly in the Middle East, who are defending and protecting sites.
Sarah Parcak
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East
Honored
Men And Women
Middle East
Prize
Men Women World
Defending
Women Men World
Particularly
Protecting
Receive
Sites
Ted
Thousands
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Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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Affair
Love Affair
Odd
Prize
Publication
Satisfaction
Love Marriage Always
Ahead
Seemed
Simple Fact
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I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
Ellen G. White
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Author
Prize
Muscle
Life Family Food
Bone
Cook
Fills
Nourish
Prepare
Sustain
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It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.
Willard Boyle
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Experience
Friends
Congratulations
Email
Honor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Old Friends
Prize
Wonderful
Wonderful Experience
Time Experience Great
Time Great Wife
Awarded
Seen
Betty
Old
Phone
Post
Received
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It's the most important prize in WWE, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. You'll do anything and everything to keep it and to get it, and that includes putting your body on the line and doing whatever it takes.
Sheamus
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Professional Wrestler
Anything And Everything
Championship
Prize
Wwe
Your Body
World Your Keep
Heavyweight
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The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.
Molly Holzschlag
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Customers
Developers
Microsoft
Prize
Users
Mr
Deplorable
Designers
Web
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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
George Wald
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Scientist
Peace
Casts
Grateful
Heart
Honor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Unique
Everywhere
Hearts
Minds
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Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries.
Klaus Von Klitzing
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Conclusion
Contradictory
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Physics
Prize
Useful
Discoveries
Fundamental
Semiconductor
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The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.
Alan Garner
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Novelist
Intellect
No Problem
Originality
Prize
Problem
Unconscious
Above
Original
Brought
Everything Else
Realm
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People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Novelist
Book
Mean
Prize
Years
Literary
Recommended
Stands
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If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.
Eugenie Bouchard
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Tennis Player
Prize
Relax
Tennis
Matches
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I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.
Christopher A. Wray
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Anonymity
Hackers
Prize
Shapes
Stealth
Publicly
Sizes
Strip
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The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.
Klaus Von Klitzing
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Activity
Clear
Connected
Institutions
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Publicity
Quantum
Research
Successful
Tremendous
Effect
Number
Hall
Individuals
Large
Large Number
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
Haruki Murakami
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Writer
Dream
Book
Midnight
Months
Prize
Ten
Writing
Finish
Happening
Publisher
Sent
Surprised
Table
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Whereas any political party, and nearly all voters, prize consistency as a sign of authentic, values-driven thinking, it is deeply alien to the hacker, who holds that changing your mind is simply intelligence in action.
Glenn Kelman
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Consistency
Prize
Voters
Alien
Authentic
Hacker
Holds
Political Party
Whereas
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I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Writer
Impression
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Socialist
Affiliated
More Or Less
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There is no doubt that Michael Symmons Roberts is a very good poet - you don't win a Whitbread award and get shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize for nothing. Few poets, though, have ever been good novelists, and vice-versa.
James Hawes
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No Doubt
Novelists
Prize
Award
Poets
Roberts
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That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg
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Scientist
Technology
Analyzing
Chemistry
Dna
Emergence
Function
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Providing
Receiving
Structure
Work Technology Me
Basis
Formed
Gene
Major
Led
Thereby
Tool
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I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievements and my desire to improve the world, but also my commitment to my Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish culture.
Itzhak Perlman
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Violinist
Genesis
Honored
Jewish Culture
Prize
Recognizing
Jewish
Achievements
Humbled
Receive
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I became president of the players' association and was willing to have conversations with influential people about equal prize money or how the tour could be promoted and structured in a way to make women's tennis better.
Pam Shriver
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Tennis Player
Association
Influential
Prize
Conversations
Promoted
Structured
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
Karen Bender
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Frank
Honored
Prize
Term
Describe
Inventors
Thrilled
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Gene Tunney
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Professional Boxer
Sports
Book
Fighter
Fighting
Impression
Prize
Studied
Fights
Books
Hit
Defensive
Essentially
Normally
Shakespeare
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In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.
David Bergen
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Novelist
Offering
Prize
Reading
Short Story
Contest
Dollar
Short
Won
Entered
Grand
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Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
Keir Starmer
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Barrister
Government
Achieve
Balance
Democracy
Fighting
Labour
Legislation
Privacy
Prize
Security
Strikes
Surveillance
Right Balance
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The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory, the inglorious triumphs, and the man who deserved bonds has carried off the prize.
Thomas Becket
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Saint
Persecuted
Prize
Punishment
Awarded
Bonds
Carried
Deserved
Gained
Hath
Triumphs
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The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.
Robert F. Engle
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Economist
Colleagues
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Recognition
Work Done Important
Applications
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
Marie Curie
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Physicist
Discovery
Elements
Finished
Husband
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Thesis
Awarded
Doctor
Year
Degree
Obtained
Radioactive
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It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.
Gerhard Herzberg
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Thank You
Appropriate
Chemistry
Giants
Honour
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Physics
Prize
Scientist
Supreme
Receive
Thank
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I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Mom
Angry
Died
Father
Mother
Prize
Unhappy
Barely
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What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
Iain Duncan Smith
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British Politician
War
Blair
Prize
Second World War
Thinking
Welfare
Years
Achieved
War World Way
Talked
Tony
Tony Blair
World War
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There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith
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Musician
Logic
Prize
Research
Straightforward
Fairly
Self-Evident
Systems
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My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
Kenneth Arrow
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Economist
Deals
Memorial
Moved
Nobel
Prize
Research
Use
Cited
Directions
Production
Variable
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