Angus Deaton Quotes
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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'I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.'
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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
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Radio had been very good to me as a car dealer. It's flexible, and it's fast - you can get on the air in an hour and change your message - and compared to other types of media, it's very good value.
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Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.
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I worry Mr. Trump believes he's special just because he's Mr. Trump and that the rules don't apply to him and the people around him.
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Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
