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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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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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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For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
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When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.
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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.
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I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.
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Devaluations are never easy.
