Esther Duflo Quotes

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Esther Duflo

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Why
  • Age
  • Play

• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Teachers

• I never starved myself.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Starved

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • House
  • Never
  • Someone

• I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Great
  • Girl

• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Feeling

• It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fear

• California is a great place to live if you're an orange.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Great
  • Live
  • California

• Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Band
  • Rock

• I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Song

• I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

  

  Louis Finkelstein
  • Time
  • Hope

• 'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Soul

• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

  

  Peter Bart

• I want to reach as many people as I can.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • People

• Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Star

• You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Bored