Jeffrey Sachs Quotes
Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.
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Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
