James Heckman Quotes
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.
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I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
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The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.
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For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
