Branko Milanovic Quotes
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
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The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.
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Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.
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And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?
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Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.
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Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
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In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
