Angus Deaton Quotes
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the country, CrossFit Kids and other preschool fitness programs are raising questions about when and how children should start playing organized sports or hitting the gym.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
