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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• 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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• 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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• O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.

  

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• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

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• Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

  

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• I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

  

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• I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

  

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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