Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

Joseph Stiglitz

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You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

Joe Wurzelbacher

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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Maya Angelou

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The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

Matthew Ramsey

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I guess I got lucky with my sound.

John Scofield

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I think of how much I've learned from doing television, and it is so invaluable.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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Boxing will always be in my life.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks

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In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Michel Faber

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So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to that body of work.

Liv Bruce

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There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated by it that I couldn't even get through the rest of the book.

Colman Domingo

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I have protection. I have police protection. I have personal bodyguards. I have three sets of them. But believe me, this is really psychological for the family. If they want to get me, they can get me. And every time that I have been saved, it's been by coincidence.

Asma Jahangir

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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

William S. Burroughs

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