Steven Levitt (Steven David "Steve" Levitt) Quotes
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
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You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world
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Oh my gravy!
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
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While most become star struck by A-list actors, you'll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.
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By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
