Angus Deaton Quotes
It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.
Angus Deaton
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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
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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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
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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
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
Carlene Carter
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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
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Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
Bryant H. McGill
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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
Debra Granik
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
Lady Gaga
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I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
Nadine Velazquez
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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore de Balzac
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It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.
Angus Deaton