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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Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
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No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
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Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.
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I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
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Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
