Angus Deaton Quotes

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

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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.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• 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.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Girl
  • Sweet
  • Young

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Couple
  • Bands
  • Background

• Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Future
  • Know

• Kids are very cruel to each other.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Cruel

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• I basically raised myself.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Raised
  • Basically

• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  

  Gavin Extence
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Tragedy

• Guy's my soulmate. I love every moment we spend together. I can't see that ever changing.

  

  Jacqui Ainsley
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Soulmate

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • America
  • Political
  • Strong

• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  • American

• I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • World
  • Worry