Douglass North Quotes

In the spring of 2012, I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my wife and two young sons.

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have.

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

I am definitely going to college!

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in New York, so I grew up there.

I want to go to college, definitely. If it's possible, I want to.

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

When I was 17, I was going to go to college because I couldn't get a movie.

I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.

I think I'd work a little more if I lived in L.A.

My college options were nil.