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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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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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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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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I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!
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The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
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I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
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Focus equals feeling.
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I don't know if everyone realizes exactly the music bond we have with New Orleans. So many people are feeling it now that we have these artists moving to Austin.
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For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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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.
