David Autor Quotes

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

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• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
  • Will
  • Intellectual

• Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Range

• A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Eye
  • Security
  • Questions

• I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Long

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Mother
  • Soul

• Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Responsibility

• I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller

• But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Great

• I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Money
  • She
  • Kids

• I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Nice

• In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Music

• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Work
  • God
  • Joy

• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Power
  • Political
  • Justice

• Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • World
  • Desire
  • Moments

• Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.

  

  Mark Margolis
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

  

  David Autor