Gary Becker Quotes
The phrase ‘marriage market’ is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured.
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
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Every single day has a different combination of exercises. It always changes, and that's what keeps things interesting.
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To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.
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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
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The phrase ‘marriage market’ is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured.
