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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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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Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
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Technology influenced me in that it gave me an opportunity to have a voice as a woman. I think it's because the barriers to entry tend to be a bit lower.
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're showing the world things can be done in a bi-partisan way. We're extending all our tax cuts for two years.'
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Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
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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.
