Esther Duflo Quotes
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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Education is very important to me.
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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
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What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
