Noreena Hertz Quotes

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Noreena Hertz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 24, 1967

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When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Angelina Jolie

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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

Angus Deaton

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When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

Tony Campolo

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The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

Tom T. Hall

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You see how can you help your team, help yourself improve, and that's what I try to figure out throughout the season.

Russell Westbrook

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

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When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.

Diane Greene

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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.

Cornelia Parker

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I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

Colleen Ballinger

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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

Brian Greene

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