Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
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But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
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This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.
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It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
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I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.
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Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.
