Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar - what are called the 'daily offices' of the church.
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Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
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I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.
