Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
We need... a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
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Whenever people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I was older, I would always say that I wanted to be a singer. When I was 12, I decided I would do something about it, so I started writing songs.
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How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
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We need... a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other.
