Angus Deaton Quotes
I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Nothing short of military defeat demoralizes a country so totally as hyper-inflation, and the Directory.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.
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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
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When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.
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I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
