Austan Goolsbee Quotes

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Effort
  • Creative
  • Inequality

• Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Now
  • Imperialism

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • Praise
  • Royal

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Memories

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• I will not get very far with this attitude.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Attitude
  • Will
  • Far

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Now
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Lost
  • Party

• Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Good
  • Real
  • Positive

• At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Model

• There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Model