David Autor Quotes

There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.

David Autor

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GoodCookingPeopleResearchBetter

Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.

Jimmy Iovine

BusinessMusicGreatDeathI Can

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

Joan Caulfield

StarsVoiceGoHollywoodBathroom

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

John Allison

StyleArtTrustMeWritingGo

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Anatoly Karpov

ChampionStrongMoreHumanWell

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

Meriwether Lewis

WomanChildMedicineBackSheCorn

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Tracey Ullman

DownClassIrishAlwaysUpMiddle

Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.

Roddy Piper

MeChanceYouBackAskShirt

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

Ruth Rendell

FailureMeWriteAlwaysAttract

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

Matt Apuzzo

SocietySearchYouTaxRightUp

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

Michelle Phan

ArtMeProcessSeeI See

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Jason Statham

LifeFreeYouPrivate LifeOpenGot

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Donovan Bailey

GoodLosingMeTeamTakeBecause

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