David Autor The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful. – David Autor Acquire Quotes Creating Quotes Effective Quotes Enable Quotes Investing Quotes Investment Quotes Longterm Quotes Opportunities Quotes People Quotes Policies Quotes Schools Quotes Situations Quotes Skills Quotes Successful Quotes I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well. The fact that people are dropping out of the labour force says one of two things: either employers have no use for them, or they have no use for the jobs that are being offered at the wages they can command.
Samira Wiley I’ve seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn’t be the person I am today without them. – Samira Wiley
ArtMusicWynton Marsalis Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art. – Wynton Marsalis
Leslie Bricusse It’s much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the story is about, so you know what the songs have got to say. – Leslie Bricusse
Christine and the Queens I remember writing ‘5 Dollars’ out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know if it’s obvious, but I was obsessed with how limpid Bruce Springsteen’s melodies are: It’s such a great way to do storytelling and to still be melodic and catchy. – Christine and the Queens
Raymond Carver It’s something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman’s point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she’s feeling. – Raymond Carver
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