William Vickrey Quotes
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
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My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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This just takes your breath away, ... I think our universities need to be more aggressive in planning for and getting resources for growth.
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I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
