Angus Deaton Quotes
Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
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That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
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The dream book is always the next book.
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Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.
