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Thomas Piketty Quotes

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tax Progressive Property Global

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Jesse Eisenberg

Good Moment Day Amazing You Know

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Football Fight Stand Done Frozen

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Women Terrible Date Even

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Myself Small Look White Bald Kind

I want to be famous everywhere.

Luciano Pavarotti

Famous Want Everywhere

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

People Society Country Person Debt

Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well.

Judah Friedlander

Business Fight You True Matter

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

Think Reality Internet I Can Way

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Work Mathematics Creative Think You

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Live Control Long Will Over Being

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Nature Love Knowledge Science Men

I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.

Life Thankful Grateful Opportunities

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