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.
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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
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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
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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
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
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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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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
Natasha Leggero
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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
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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
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton
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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
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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
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I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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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
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson
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Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
Lou Holtz
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I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.
Charlie Kimball
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Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.
Donna Reed
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When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
Martha Quinn
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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