Angus Deaton Quotes
Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.
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I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
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I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.
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When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.
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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.
