Edmund Phelps Quotes
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.Edmund Phelps
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong -
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
Taylor Sheridan -
If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
Tahl Raz -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck -
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
LaToya London -
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman -
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton -
I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI -
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
Patricia Heaton
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
Carly Fiorina -
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson -
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain
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As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.
Christina Ricci -
Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.
Brad Feld -
As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
Billy Crystal -
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Charlie Kaufman -
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps