Angus Deaton Quotes
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
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I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.
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I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.
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When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.
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The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.
