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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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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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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Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.
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I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
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I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.
