Angus Deaton Quotes
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I think I need security.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
