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Noreena Hertz Quotes

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Children Child World Improve May

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

Jim Goldberg

Work Questions Asking Questions Kind

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

Art Myself Thinking Find British

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Jesse Ventura

Racing Debate Go Way See Suit

I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party.

John McCain

Proud Party My Own Own Reform

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

Max Beesley

Beach People Me Holidays Know Paid

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

Matthew Desmond

Life Path People Poverty Acting

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

Amy Winehouse

Great Yourself School People Thought

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Steve Erickson

Politics Political Attention House

Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it.

Steven Soderbergh

Me Weather Feel Upset Netflix Just

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

Mickey Rooney

Romantic She Singer Different Judy

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne

Dangerous Wit Weapon Even Knows He

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Michelle Bachelet

Strength Women Wisdom Challenge Us