George J. Borjas Quotes

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

George J. Borjas

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• I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Heart
  • Start
  • Soccer

• So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Power
  • Man
  • Law

• I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Trying
  • Question

• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Integrity
  • Brainy

• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Come
  • Detour

• I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Love
  • Man
  • Relationship

• There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Independent

• A woman should not have to fear retribution from her employer, and the District of Columbia should be able to pass laws to protect against that retribution.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Fear

• I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • Mind
  • Character

• When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

  

  Adnan Sami

• I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Green

• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  

  Duffy Daugherty

• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Trouble
  • Speakers

• What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • Wealth
  • Immigration
  • Workers