James Heckman Quotes
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
Quotes to Explore
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
