Steven Levitt (Steven David "Steve" Levitt) Quotes
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
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There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.
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People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
