Angus Deaton Quotes
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
-
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
-
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
-
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
-
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
-
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
-
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
-
My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
-
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
-
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
-
I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
-
When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
-
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
-
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
-
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
-
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
-
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
-
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
-
He’d grown a mustache since Randall had last seen him. It was hard to understand why: He looked devious enough without it.
-
Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
-
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
-
Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
-
I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.
-
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
