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Thomas Piketty Quotes

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: May 7, 1971

Topics

Education Knowledge Inequality Always

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world out there.

Love Me World Thinking Journalism

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

Problems Care Take Care You Create

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Wisdom Knowledge Power Vision Virtue

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Stephen Gardiner

Today Heights Plans Floor Anonymity

I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person.

Music Person Old Club Like Hip Hop

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Age Time Old Age Man Child Husband

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

Jonathan Dimbleby

She Herself Like Adore Madonna Else

'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

Perspective Cinema Actor Events Film

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

Down Up Only The Only Thing Screw

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

Pierre Salinger

Me Husband She Days Wonderful Her

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.

Mother Day Wish Wonder Now Kind

I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'

Priyanka Chopra

Girl Time Me Immigration American

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