Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?' (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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I was not always a man of woe.
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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
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You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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I'm not afraid to take a punch.
