Angus Deaton Quotes
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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We always trend set.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.
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Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.
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One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
