Esther Duflo Quotes

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

Esther Duflo

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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
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• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Yourself
  • Looking
  • Data

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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  • Character
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• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
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• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
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• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Woman
  • Blow

• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Need

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Take
  • Studio

• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Being
  • Being There

• I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Different
  • Everyone
  • Assumption

• Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.

  

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  • President

• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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  • Deep

• It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
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• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Good
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• I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Different
  • Children
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• Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Children
  • Want
  • Upset