Edmund Phelps Quotes
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.Edmund Phelps
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
Sam Neill -
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Vince Carter -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien -
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson -
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrow -
I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
Earl Scruggs -
I have never had personal debt and never will.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
Sammi Hanratty -
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
Venus Williams -
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
Gary Numan -
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
Jessica Pare -
Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.
Etan Cohen -
I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
Barack Obama -
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
Edmund Phelps