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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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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 always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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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.
