Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Joseph Stiglitz

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There's no future in being poor.

Robert Shaw

FuturePoorBeingNo Future

I remember putting mascara on when I was 13 for the first time and going to the shop to buy a chocolate bar. I felt so exposed. I remember wearing a bra for the first time and feeling very exposed by that.

Mia Goth

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The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

Stanley Hauerwas

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It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Michelle Wolf

SomeoneHardJokeOutMake

I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.

Min Jin Lee

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The one thing in my contract that they have backstage for me is bananas. And usually my assistant will go and get me chicken broth.

Joshua Bell

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When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

David Tennant

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I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Christina Aguilera

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There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.

Coy Bowles

BestThinkYouLookCareerWay

As we were developing 'Umbral', and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. 'Wasteland' is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas 'Umbral' is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!

Antony Johnston

PeopleBelieveBe TrueNewTrueOut

What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.

Anne Wilson Schaef

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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

Ally Carter

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