Angus Deaton Quotes

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

Angus Deaton

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • House
  • Morning

• We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Grow
  • Cost

• I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Think
  • Look
  • Admire

• I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Best
  • Focus
  • Balance

• One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Worry

• The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Page

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Always

• Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Work
  • Art

• The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • World
  • Great

• I save the rage for the stage.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• Hatred, bigotry, and discrimination have no place in our country. We must work hard to make sure that America remains an inclusive and respectful country.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Day
  • Survival

• I'm from the burbs. I've been in the hood, but I don't live there. I have lived in the hood, but I don't live there anymore. I lived in Harlem, and that was crazy, even though Harlem is a lot nicer than it used to be.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Live
  • Crazy
  • Hood

• I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Speak

• The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

  

  James Connolly
  • Society

• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  

  John Tilbury AMM
  • Giving
  • Humorous
  • Elegance

• International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Hood