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.

Branko Milanovic

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• Finance
• Inequality
• Health issues

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• 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.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Art
  • May
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Issue
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • May
  • Think
  • Down

• I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Black
  • Woman

• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• 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.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Cards

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Seriously

• I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Community
  • Kind
  • Confidence

• I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Never
  • Just
  • Before

• As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Different
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

  

  Annie Ernaux
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Purpose

• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Sometimes

• Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Food
  • Things
  • Tweeting

• Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

  

  Richard Neal
  • America
  • Wealth

• 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.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Writing
  • Finance
  • Inequality