Angus Deaton Quotes

The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

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EducationHealthQualitySupport

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

John Mellencamp

FirstTwoOriginalOnlyRecordsHe

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

John Hodgman

CommunityPeopleBuildingPlayAlong

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Ang Lee

LifeSonMoneyMy LifeTryHospital

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

John R. Allen

RelationshipDaySecuritySingle

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Rodney Brooks

FamilyScienceMathematicsSchool

I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable.

Ronda Rousey

LoveSupportPeopleThinkMatter

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

Michele Bachmann

LifeEarthNaturalCycleCarbon

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.

Lois Lowry

GoodCharacterPeopleStoryCreate

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

Chevy Chase

RememberMoviesWatchingHardLittle

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brewster Kahle

GoodSmartBuildingBuildGoing

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

Bob Seger

DriveConvertible

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

Scott Baio

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