David Autor Quotes
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.
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I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.
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Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of someone that you don't have the consent for is illegal, and that's a huge, huge issue. We need to be teaching consent, and that's not just for photos.
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I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
