Angus Deaton Quotes
Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
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We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
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Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.
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Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.
