Angus Deaton Quotes
International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
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Just like you have fire regulations, they should have regulations that no building would be made without charging points for electric vehicles.
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International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.
