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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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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He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
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I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.
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To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.
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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
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Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
