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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The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
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A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.
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Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
