David Autor Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
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I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.
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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
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While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.
