Gary Becker Quotes

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

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• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
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• My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Kate Brown
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  • Penalty

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Career
  • Political
  • Leadership

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Consequences

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
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• Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
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• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
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  • Hope
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• It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Temper

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
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  • Place

• Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Life
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• What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Weird
  • Fly

• They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
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• China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

  

  George Allen
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• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
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