David Autor Quotes
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.'
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He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.
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There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?
