Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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I think music is another language.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
