Austan Goolsbee Quotes

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

Austan Goolsbee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1969

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I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

Jesse Ball

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I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Michelle Ryan

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There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'

Lou Boudreau

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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Diogenes

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The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

Cofer Black

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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Bruce Beresford

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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

Peter Dinklage

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If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.

Sean Bean

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We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

Thomas Piketty

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The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

Tina Brown

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