Austan Goolsbee Quotes
If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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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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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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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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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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I get a much more extreme reaction when I have my hair really short. I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. It's a much more extreme reaction.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.
