Angus Deaton Quotes

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

Angus Deaton

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I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Joanna Trollope

MeYouPerfectIntellectualStylist

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

Jerry Robinson

TimeHumorMindVillainThinkName

Style? I have no style.

Anatoly Karpov

Style

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

LifeGoodFriendTimeDayMom

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Stephen Hawking

PositiveMyselfMeSayOthersGet

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

Stephen Jay Gould

InnovationTrainingPeopleThinkMay

Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.

Tracy Morgan

CoolOutMorganSubduedChilled

I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.

Roger Taylor

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I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!

Roustam Tariko

LifeFreedomMyselfBookGrammar

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

Mike Wallace

KnowWellKidsWantedShouldDid

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

Little Simz

MusicMyselfHonestExpressionBeing

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

TodayTimeMemoryAlienSeemUs

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