Angus Deaton Quotes

When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

Angus Deaton

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ColdMagicDreamLivingBoyWet

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch

LifeSuccessMeSurpriseMy Life

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

GoodEvilPersonMoreEverything

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John D. MacDonald

ChangeIntegrityManYourselfWind

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Robert M. Gates

IntelligenceBuildingPartnerEarly

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Mencius

ManEvilHeavenMankindFearsDoes

We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

Stacy Schiff

EducationWomenGreatDayWomanNow

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

Stevie Nicks

ChildrenRock StarYouFindRock

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ruby Wax

LoveWomenFootballMeGameSpeak

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

Michael Moore

HealthCareAmericanRightPublic

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.

Jay Roach

LovedLaughBackCheapRightOut

The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.

Joseph Stiglitz

PeopleFinancialCommittedPublic

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Jose Bergamin

SuccessBe PreparedReadyFail

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