Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.Joseph Stiglitz
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown -
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
Carly Fiorina -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
Dana Hussein
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine -
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler -
I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
Damian Woetzel -
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
Ma Jian -
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
Abby Wambach -
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
Warren Zevon -
The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
Vaclav Havel -
One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
Igor Ivanov -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
Gary Zukav -
God desires that we position ourselves to hear His voice so we can receive the Word that will change our lives forever.
Creflo A. Dollar -
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
Joseph Stiglitz