Angus Deaton Quotes

I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.

Angus Deaton

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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

Joe R. Lansdale

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I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

Jill Abramson

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The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmour

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I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Steve Coogan

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The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Steve Guttenberg

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When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Simon McBurney

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I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Josh Klinghoffer

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When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

Dolph Lundgren

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Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

Dennis Quaid

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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Chris Jordan

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I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Shelley Berman

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