William Vickrey Quotes
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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To be is to do.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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Government should be a model of inclusion.
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Thus far, at least, the growth effects of energy price increases appear relatively modest.
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The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.