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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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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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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No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
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Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
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I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.
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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.
