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Angus Deaton Quotes

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best Together Data Moments You Know

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

Home I Can Nice Say Will Never

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Change Die Tradition Down Pure Myth

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Passion Men Temptation Error Most

'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.

Strength Government Effort Energy

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Stanley Kubrick

Yourself Crazy Think You Sometimes

My Britishness waters my music down!

Music Down Waters

I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.

Creative Birds Feel Box Out Seem

Comcast is a big voice: they have a tremendous voice across America; they're a tremendous voice in Spanish and English, and they have a tremendous voice in Washington.

Voice America Washington Big English

I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

New York Tomorrow Me Partner Boots

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

Performance Will Seen Something Some

I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving.

Mother Relationship Loving I Can Nag

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Children Think Innocence Project

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