Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I was very rebellious.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
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Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.
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Devaluations are never easy.
