Austan Goolsbee Quotes
Let's pass the small business credit enhancement bill so small business can get back on its feet.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
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There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.
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Let's pass the small business credit enhancement bill so small business can get back on its feet.
