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 Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
