Angus Deaton Quotes

Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

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• The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.

  

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

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• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

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• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

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• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

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• We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

  

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• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

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• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

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• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  

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• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

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• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

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• I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

  

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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

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• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

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• I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

  

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

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• I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

  

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• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  

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• Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

  

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• I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

  

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• Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Mind
  • Today