Angus Deaton Quotes

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

Angus Deaton

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• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Like
  • Position
  • Valid

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• 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.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Love
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Technology
  • Training

• Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Necessarily

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Art
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Men
  • Drunk

• 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.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Today
  • Taken

• Who peppered the highest was surest to please.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Practice
  • Innocent

• He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. And he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame.

  

  John Updike
  • Church
  • Dark

• The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

  

  Peter Straub
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• People have to know that if they've wanted to lose weight, if they've wanted to get their diabetes better and get their cholesterol down, here is how it works. Beyond that point, you can't force people into changes, you have to guide them.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • People
  • Weight
  • Diabetes

• I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

  

  Angus Deaton