"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."

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Source : "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

Austan Goolsbee

#Data Quotes #Information Quotes #Internet Quotes

“I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.”
“There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.”
“It's basically how I choose movie roles. Would I like to see this movie? Is this movie important? Why would I do this? And Headhunters is a movie that I would like to see in the cinema. And when it's sold to 50 countries or whatever, for me it's a great deal. I make movies for an audience so if that audience grows, I feel really honoured and thankful for it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I'm as clean as a whistle.”
“For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.”
“I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.”
“You are just a murdered. (Near) (btw this was an epic win on near's part when light spazzed out and went crazy)”
“Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.”

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