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Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

Joseph Stiglitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1943

Topics

Education Generation Country More

A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything.

Jillian Murray

Change Experience Trying Down Want

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.

John Burnside

Work Family Father Cold Old Years

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Robert Gottlieb

Strength Authority First Movement

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

Existence Get Five Still Seven Did

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

Lisa Jewell

Family Home School Parents House

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Douglas Coupland

Time Me Reward Alien Earth Trapped

The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.

Bruno Maag

Beauty Stars Light Dark Alien Five

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

Brock Lesnar

Good Man Yes Very Controlled Easily

I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

Philippe Petit

Love Fear I Am Clouds You Heights

The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.

Scott Ellis

Opportunity Time Challenge Reward

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

Richard Rogers

Technology Science History Art Over

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Vision World Society Never Must