David Autor Quotes

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

David Autor

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• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Changes

• The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Hair
  • Incredible

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Future
  • New

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Inspiration
  • Consciousness
  • Self-Consciousness

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Better
  • Need

• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Gift

• I think the fan access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Laughing

• Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Family

• Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Future
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

  

  David Autor
  • Money
  • Taken
  • Study