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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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.
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I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas! Dave Keuning Weather Vegas Big Big Fan Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal. Dave Keuning You I Can Vegas Tell That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that. Dave Keuning Singing Perfect Like Knowing I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me. Dave Keuning Love Music Me You Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous. Dave Keuning Dangerous Band Themselves Gonna I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
