David Autor Quotes
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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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.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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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.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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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.
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Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.
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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.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
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We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
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I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.
