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.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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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.
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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.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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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.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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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.
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I do not like violence.
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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.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.
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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
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George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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My role model is my dad.
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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.
