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've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
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I made just about every mistake a person could make before God came into my heart. If some of those painful experiences can help someone avoid the same mistakes I made, then perhaps my heartache was not totally in vain.
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Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.
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I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
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The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious 'proof' that such adventures are futile.
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
