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Angus Deaton Quotes

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Growth Chance Poverty Active Without

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

Brother Guitar Play Drums Excellent

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Jennifer O'Neill

Trying You Relationships Will Them

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Queen I Am King Waiting Parents Me

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Story Short You Lights Way See

The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.

People Society Black Values White

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

Food Cooking People Me Start Budget

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Stars Society Action Think American

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Live You Want Safe Only Your

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

Influence Book Brilliant Inspiration

I've said for a long time there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria. There has to be a diplomatic solution. ISIL cannot be part of it. Al-Qaeda cannot be part of it, and Assad cannot be part of it. We are dealing with issues that have been going on for centuries, and I'm not sure the administration fully appreciates that.

Time Solution Long Said Long Time

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Good Bad Nobody

'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'

Funny Me Doctor Black Doing Hood

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