David Autor Quotes
Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I don't have many friends.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.
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There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
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Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
