Esther Duflo Quotes

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

Esther Duflo

• Education
• India
• Disaster
• Lacking
• Health services

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• 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.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
  • Condition

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• 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.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Think
  • Obvious
  • Cynical

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• The world needs champions. Too many people still find the path to opportunity closed to them. Too many still find unnecessary obstacles to education, to housing, to the full and free exercise of the right to vote.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • History
  • Education
  • Party

• What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Education
  • India
  • Disaster