Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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.
Dan Hill -
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.
Owen Wilson -
I was very rebellious.
Katey Sagal -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
Barry Lam
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
Larry Hogan -
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.
Barry Hannah -
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
Adam Cohen -
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.
Adam Davidson -
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
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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.
FKA twigs -
We should learn to think with our fingers.
Taisen Deshimaru -
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.
Frances Burney -
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller -
If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
Chuck Palahniuk -
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Caroline Corr
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I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them.
Jeff Goldblum -
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz -
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Steve Earle -
I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.
Michael Eric Dyson -
Devaluations are never easy.
Jeffrey Sachs