Angus Deaton Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
Colson Whitehead -
And a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
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The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!
