James Heckman Quotes
I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
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I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
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I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.
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I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
