Angus Deaton Quotes

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

Angus Deaton

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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.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

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

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• 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

• As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Home is your sanctuary.

  

  Daria Werbowy
  • Home

• Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Public

• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Smile

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

  

  Angus Deaton