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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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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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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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
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Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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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.
