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Angus Deaton Quotes

People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have children. And why would you expect one set to be happier than another?

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children People You Want Why Expect

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Jocko Willink

Someone Improve Activity Recommend

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

John Hurt

Business Same Different Just Clergy

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Family Good Government Up Anything

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.

Stephen Kinzer

Risks Isolation Care Country Seem

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

Steven Adams

Cake Fat You Bread Why Confuse

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

RJ Cyler

Life Girl Together Kiss You Perfect

I was so lucky and blessed to have gotten 'White Chicks' so early into my career.

Rochelle Aytes

Blessed Early Career White Lucky

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Robert Winston

Good Children Parenting World Think

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

Great Performance Worry You Just

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

Man Mind Sitting More Him Tell

I think that terriers are not really the prettiest dogs, but they're scrappy and they're loyal, and they get it done, you know what I mean?

Michael Raymond-James

Think You Know Done Mean Dogs

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

Donna Brazile

Good Politics People Think Acting