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 feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

Jessie J

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We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

Joel Silver

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Success is overwhelming.

Jennifer Holliday

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During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

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Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Riz Ahmed

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You can't waste time in your life trying to hide the truth.

Rory O'Malley

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Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

Masi Oka

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My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

Liz Goldwyn

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I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.

Julia Holter

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The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

Julia Lipnitskaya

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I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

Jason Isbell

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