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Angus Deaton Quotes

Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Change Potential Globalization

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

Joanne Froggatt

Character Job Me Looking Street

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

Robert Plant

You Old Years Fantastic Volume

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Stephen Colbert

Looking You Information Seriously Us

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Day Writing Bad Glass Will

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

Stephen J. Dubner

Religion Desire Movement Define Era

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

Sidney Poitier

Life Racism Enough Race Never See

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Moby

Patience People Ideas World Think

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

Poetry Wild Something Must Vast

We're going to run against Nancy Pelosi in 2018. We'll remind people in 2018 - what's the rhetorical question - 'Do you really want Nancy Pelosi back as speaker of the House?'

Chris Collins

People You Back House Want Run

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

Apolo Ohno

Life Father Great My Life Jail Dead

War is at its best barbarism.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Best War Barbarism

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

Nature Perfect Heaven Satisfy Joys