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Oren Etzioni Quotes

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

People Boredom Dignity Protect Vice

Our family is very, very competitive. But it's a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win.

Work Family Fun Work Hard Win Proud

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

Wife Play Will Heavy Gamble About

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Life Confidence Truth Mistake People

I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Live Football Road You Down I Can

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

Good Simplicity Think Better More

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Think Back News Politicians Give

My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.

Son Guitar House Call Loud Guys

I get so antsy. When you're working, you're like, 'Oh my God, I'm so tired.' And then a hiatus starts, and you're off for three days, and you don't know what to do with yourself. You're never gonna have another job in your life, and you suck at acting. Your world comes tumbling down pretty quickly.

Life God Job Yourself Tired World

I don't like to think too far ahead.

Think Ahead Far Like Too

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

William McKinley

Man I Am Standing Tariff Platform

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

Hope Forward Uncertainty Picture

I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.

God Moment Me Think Walking America

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