Austan Goolsbee Quotes

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • American
  • History
  • Black

• I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Hope
  • Years
  • Two

• It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Law
  • Government
  • Employee

• It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Strong
  • Support
  • City

• All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Real
  • Cool

• When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Option

• I always felt like I was stuck in between my parents, relaying information back and forth and walking on egg shells, not knowing what was going to trigger something to make them mad and not knowing what to say in front of them.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Parents
  • Walking
  • Mad

• You can’t change what you don’t understand.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Say
  • Statement
  • Object

• I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • Believe

• Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Society
  • Dumb
  • Distress

• Nobody deserves this. 'Please,' she prayed, and wasn’t sure what she asked.Whatever it was, it was not granted.

  

  Connie Willis
  • She

• People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Business
  • Judge

• I'm just trying to do my job and my part to make this a team that people respect.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Job

• I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Color

• Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

  

  Annette Funicello
  • Up
  • Growing

• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Red

• What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Revolution

• Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

  

  Will Smith
  • Work
  • Character
  • Energy

• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Peace
  • United States
  • Evolution

• The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

  

  Austan Goolsbee