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Angus Deaton Quotes

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Think Globalization Understand

When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'

Joanne Liu

Parents You Young Say Become Eat

My parents were very famous, but they were never snobs.

Maye Musk

Parents Famous Never Very Were

Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one's going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore.

John Quelch

Long Down Drink Long Term Going

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Ability Degree High Found Solemnity

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Stephen King

Great Best Money Writing Think

I didn't really have many friends as a child.

Trudie Styler

Child Friends Many Really

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

Tony Fadell

Change Home Government You Phone

I know you can't fight forever, and there's only so long you can do this.

Robbie Lawler

Fight Long You Know Forever Only

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

Rob Corddry

Comedy Get CNN

Honest doesn't necessarily mean unfiltered.

Josh Gondelman

Mean Honest Necessarily

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

Chris Young

Song Story Someone Feeling Why Out

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Craig Bruce

Genius Place Understand First Being