Angus Deaton Quotes

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

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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
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• 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
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• 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
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• 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
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Best
  • Most

• 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
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• 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
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Children
  • School
  • Want

• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Art
  • Political
  • Mean

• Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Drama
  • Daily

• I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Up
  • Together
  • Hope

• If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Beer

• It's really attractive if a man has a skill that you want to improve in yourself. If you can learn from someone, then that's sexy.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Sexy

• Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • War