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Steven Levitt Quotes

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 29, 1967

Topics

Think Data Powerful Try Tell Take

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

Art People Me Alive Important Lived

Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.

John O. Brennan

Death Effort Organization End Defeat

When you're doing a television production, or you're with a company, there is some stress; there is pressure to perform, and it's a little tougher, but it also comes with the benefits of having huge television exposure and wrestling in front of a bigger crowd.

Stress Pressure Doing You Television

'I' is bound to have an impact on my career.

Impact Career Bound

I would love to try action films.

Love Action Try Would Films

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

Good Think Young Now Connected More

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'

Me Free Saying Year Look Wednesday

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

Ritchie Blackmore

Change Good Why Point Something

I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.

Week Hours Spend Infrared

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

Spiritual Voice Universe Silent Own

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Home Night Acting Go Used Just

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Day Start Story Think Interesting

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