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.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.
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I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
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I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.
