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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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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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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… let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.
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I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.
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How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.
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I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.
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People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
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If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'
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I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.
