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Angus Deaton Quotes

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 19, 1945

Topics

World Poverty Differences Bank Needs

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

Trust People Long You Always Been

Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!

Men Woman Go Sometimes Ahead Shy

I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

John Cameron Mitchell

Change Women Men Name You Gay

I just think everything my kids do is fabulous.

Think Fabulous Everything Just Kids

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Father Time Slavery Long Loving Dad

I've played a lot of basketball during my life - and it's not always been good.

Life Good Basketball My Life Always

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Robert Baden-Powell

Good Men Competition Rules Play

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Robyn Hitchcock

Hope Day Me Writing World Die

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

Good Grateful People Good Things You

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Life Time Spiritual Me Think Find

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

Born Place Always Something Us Were

My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

Jay R. Ferguson

Life More First Experiences Whole

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