David Autor Quotes
The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
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I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.
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Caminante, son tus huellasel camino, y nada más;caminante, no hay camino,se hace camino al andar.Al andar se hace camino,y al volver la vista atrásse ve la senda que nuncase ha de volver a pisar.Caminante, no hay camino,sino estelas en la mar.
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My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.
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In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
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You’re so different—like a pretty rock that you almost step over because you assume it’s the same as all the others. But then you pick it up and realize how lucky you are to have found it.
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The writing process remained the same pretty much that we have always done. It’s very collaborative and everyone brings their bag of ideas into the room – we all play guitar, we all write lyrics.
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The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?
