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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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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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 don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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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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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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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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He's always been tough on me, but I've had to figure out when he's being a coach and when he's being a dad. Once I figured that out, it was much easier. It's definitely tough, something that took years to figure out. Just knowing he was looking for what's best for me, not just yelling at me as a parent. It took maturity.
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I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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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.
