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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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
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Consolidation is so overwhelming. Someone who has one or two stations doesn't have much clout.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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For me, my brand is good storytelling.
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The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.
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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.
