James Heckman Quotes
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
Quotes to Explore
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.
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According to government ethics rules and FOMC rules, it is permissible for a retired governor to speak in public about the economy, so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.
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The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
