Angus Deaton Quotes
I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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I know the importance of family. I mean, it really completes me as a person. I want lots of children; I want so many children. I look at babies' pictures, and I am like... I love kids.
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
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As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.
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All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.
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I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
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I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.
