Steven Levitt (Steven David "Steve" Levitt) Quotes
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
Steven Levitt
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreesen
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
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I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
Taylor Sheridan
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
Wayne Huizenga
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
Karl Schroeder
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
Ian Frazier
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V. S. Naipaul
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
V. E. Schwab
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
Adam Beach
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
T. J. Miller
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I work hard and support myself.
Zoe Cassavetes
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Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.
Felicity Huffman
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It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
Faith Ford
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
Uday Kotak
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
Gavin Newsom
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
Laura Dern
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We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.
Augusto Pinochet
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Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
Britt Ekland
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As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.
Lupita Nyong'o
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The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
James Bovard
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
Steven Levitt
