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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If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.
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Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
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I'm not afraid to take a punch.
