Angus Deaton Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
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I basically raised myself.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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We are the world, we are the children.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.
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I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.
