Emily Oster Quotes

I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.

Emily Oster

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OpportunityTruthTruth IsImportant

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

Jochen Zeitz

BusinessYouResourcesDestroyed

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

Jerry Spinelli

BestDo Your BestYourselfWriting

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

PeopleStrongRememberYouFeelings

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Jeremy Davies

MyselfDesireSeriouslyEducateVery

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

Andie MacDowell

TimeChildBetterWorryYouPerfect

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

LifeFootballPeopleGameBetter

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

John Mahoney

MarriageFearRelationshipParents

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

John Podesta

IdeasForwardThinkWayMeanNeed

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Ambrose Bierce

DrunkExcuseConvenientGetting

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Romain Gary

PeopleGoKnowWantFirstGet

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Jose Mujica

LiveEnergyStandPovertyWant

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Joseph de Maistre

ArtPhilosophyWithoutIgnoring

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