James Heckman Quotes
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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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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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I went to college for communications, so I came out and said I wanted to work for the greatest communications company, and I ended up at HBO - and I couldn't have been happier. And now, as an actress, I wound up back at HBO - and they truly are the best.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.
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We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
