Austan Goolsbee Quotes
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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God is simply love.
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Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. There are no 'good guns'. There are no 'bad guns'. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.
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I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.