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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There is no advance without strife.
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We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.
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...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
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Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.