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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Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
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Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
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How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.
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I was such a 'Star Wars' fan. That was my generation.
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Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you.
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I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
