Angus Deaton Quotes
Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.Angus Deaton
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
Kal Penn -
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus -
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
Patrick J. Adams -
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Harold E. Hughes -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Zhang Xin -
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
Damien Hirst
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
Adam Lambert -
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
Eddie Bracken -
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
Frances McDormand -
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
Kate Winslet -
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
Laura Bush
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
Malcolm Fraser -
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
Anna Akhmatova -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
Alison Bechdel -
Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.
Angus Deaton