David Autor Quotes

Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Better
  • Been
  • Occupation

• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Want
  • Law

• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Things

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Down

• Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • Think
  • Australia

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Son

• I love singing as much as I love acting.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Acting

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Myself
  • Excited
  • Far

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feels

• Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • Day
  • Immigration

• Everything happens at the perfect time, man. You may not realize it. But now I do.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Time
  • May
  • Perfect

• Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Time
  • Guy

• All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy.

  

  Lynn Good

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

  

  James Stockdale
  • Character
  • Success
  • Friend

• Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

  

  David Autor