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David Autor Quotes

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1967

Topics

Pie Growing Labor Slice Much Very

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

Money Practice Law Start Texas You

In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.

Culture Weakness American Help Ask

My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!

Family Friend Live Time Best

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Maynard James Keenan

Behavior Nation See I See Historical

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

People Story Attention Person Kind

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

Politics Feel Difficult Measurement

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

You Party Know Kind Like Everybody

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Good Man War Good Man Chance Never

I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'

Time Hate Think Dressed Wasting Time

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Responsibility Government Judges Just

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

Roy H. Williams

Value Remains Often Improved Item

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

Life My Life Songwriting Save Ways

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