Austan Goolsbee Quotes
I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.
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I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.
