Austan Goolsbee Quotes
Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I like 'Confide' a lot. It was just like a great vibe for me. I was in the studio in Atlanta, and I recorded it and thought, 'This is definitely going on my album.'
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
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Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.
