Angus Deaton Quotes

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Sports
  • Nothing

• We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it's through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Chronic disputes which divert precious resources from the needs of the people or drain the energies of both sides serve the interests of no one - and the badge of responsibility in the modern world is a willingness to seek peaceful solutions.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People
  • World
  • Responsibility

• Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

  

  Jon Lord

• We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

  

  Dyan Cannon

• It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World