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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
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We're going to try a couple of other things this week.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
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My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
