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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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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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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My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
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Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
