James Heckman Quotes
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
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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 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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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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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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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
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I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
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I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
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There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
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It would be impossible to overstate the appreciation that we on the crew feel for your dedication and the quality of your work.
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
