Gary Becker Quotes
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
