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 -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
Dana Hussein -
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
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
Damian Woetzel -
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 -
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
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
Katharine Hepburn -
I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
Andy Samberg -
I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
Angelina Jolie -
To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.
Barack Obama -
I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
Michael Ritchie -
For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
Daniel Barenboim
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton -
I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
Anita Ekberg -
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
Joseph Stiglitz