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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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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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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He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scenes, which is a lot for a TV show. And I don't think we ever work over 12 hours. But that's because we don't really rehearse. We don't. We get some notes and maybe Denis changes this bit of writing or that. He's so present. He has a special talent in that he's so truthful. Working with him, you just fly with the material. He's very centred and very generous.
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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
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You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
