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Esther Duflo Quotes

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: October 25, 1972

Topics

Happiness Health Rest Important Poor

The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is push my dog off of me. He likes to sleep on top of me. I think it's because I'm warm and breathing.

Dog Morning Sleep Me Wake Up Think

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

Poetry Enough You Write Annoying

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

John Henry Carver

Father House Person Him Carpentry

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Algebra Metaphysics Arithmetic

I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.

Paparazzi Ham Definitely

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Life Children Art Bath Bubble Awe

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

People Me Singing Up Piano Well

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

Good Beginning Friends Looks Pass

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

Earth Australia Rock Old Single

I'm just a geeky, goofy person.

Person Goofy Just Geeky

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

Yourself Strong You Back Choice

Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.

Car Influence Drive Will Image Get

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