Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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I love my country so much.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
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He stood a spell on one foot fustThen stood a spell on t' other,An' on which one he felt the wustHe could n't ha' told ye nuther.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
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Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.
