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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Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
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When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
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What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
