Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I am healthy and happy.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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I'm a huge Trekkie.
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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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...History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.'
