Emily Oster Quotes
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
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I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.
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When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
