David Autor Quotes
If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
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There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies.
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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
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If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
