David Autor Quotes
Manufacturing value chains are global. Many U.S.-made goods have foreign components. Slapping on tariffs will raise prices and slow imports, but it will make us poorer and impede growth.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.
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The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is to find a more inclusive growth trajectory that can be sustained economically, ecologically, and politically.
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The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.
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Manufacturing value chains are global. Many U.S.-made goods have foreign components. Slapping on tariffs will raise prices and slow imports, but it will make us poorer and impede growth.
