Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Life is God's art.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.
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I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.
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There is no secret. It is all about doing the same things time and time again. It is all about doing the best every day.
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If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.
