William Easterly Quotes

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

William Easterly

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Fact

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Will
  • Street

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Focus
  • Brand
  • Content

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Internet

• I like to make collages - paper collages.

  

  Rachel True
  • Like
  • Make
  • Paper

• I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Success
  • Political

• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Consciousness
  • Pure

• I think of myself as an actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Actor

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Up
  • Career
  • Want

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Write
  • Rap

• I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Change
  • Need
  • Whatever

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • May
  • War
  • Spring

• I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Trying
  • Existed

• We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Up
  • Revolution

• Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

  

  William Easterly
  • Remember
  • Individual
  • Achieve