James Heckman Quotes

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Me
  • Struggle

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• 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.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Growing
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • School
  • Small
  • Law

• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Small
  • Moon
  • Faces

• 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.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Words
  • Light
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• It is my passion to direct movies.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Passion
  • Movies
  • Direct

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Immigration
  • Abortion
  • Inequality

• The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

  

  Valeria Lukyanova
  • Children
  • Ideas
  • Deep

• A lot of times, what people see is what they hear or what's on your Instagram.

  

  Evan Ross
  • People
  • See
  • Instagram

• He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Charity

• Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

  

  James Heckman
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  • Children
  • Help