Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.
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To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
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History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
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You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.
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I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
