Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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There seemed nothing to do but live.
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Sculpture, to me, is primitive, religious, passionate, and magical.
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Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.
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There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.
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It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.
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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
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It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
