Esther Duflo Quotes
I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
