Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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We should all love animals.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
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All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
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Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.
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Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.
