Angus Deaton Quotes
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.Angus Deaton
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
Kapil Dev -
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett -
I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
Yuri Lowenthal -
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt -
I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin -
I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
Usain Bolt -
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
Macaulay Culkin -
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid -
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
Harry Belafonte -
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
Ueli Gegenschatz -
If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
Dana Plato -
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
Natalie Portman
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Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.
Jason Fried -
I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!
Megyn Price -
A few people said to me on the UK tour 'that feeling you're feeling is natural. Everyone feels nerves. But, you've got to use that to your advantage. You've got to use that nervous energy and pull it into your performance’. And, I'd never thought of that before.
Ladyhawke -
I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'
Kelsea Ballerini -
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
Angus Deaton