Esther Duflo Quotes
Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
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Go to work on an egg.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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So you say there are spaces, opening wide?Oh believe me, there's day longer than nights.And you could be happy, if only you'd try.But you don't try. No you don't try.
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The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
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One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
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Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
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Giving more to women will, to some extent, come at the expense of men. People sometimes try to sweep that under the rug by saying you will create so much additional resources that everyone will be better off. I don't think that's true.
