Angus Deaton Quotes
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
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When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'
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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
