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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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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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.
