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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The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
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Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.
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There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.
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The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!
