Angus Deaton Quotes

Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodPoliticalBadInequalitySocial

I was a Brownie Scout mother.

Joan Rivers

MotherScout

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Jennifer Egan

WorkMeWork HardWinYouKnow

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Andrew Lau

KnowMoviesChinaHowAudiences

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.

Stefano Gabbana

TimeJobRedDressCrazyFashion

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Spencer Tracy

WaitFeelRecognitionOthersUpMay

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

LifeHomeTimeJobPeopleWorld

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Mike Rutherford

GunThinkNameFeelSomeoneCrime

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

ChildrenSportsSeriousActionsMost

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Judith Guest

I AmPressureFeelFriendsSomeone

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

Christine McVie

FamilyFatherHomeTimeHouseCome

I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.

Sylvia Plath

SeaTeaBirdsThinkTideBorders

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

Seth Godin

YouDigThirstyWellYourBefore

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