Angus Deaton Quotes

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.

Adnan Sami

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And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Jimmy Buffett

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Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

Jim McKelvey

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I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Robert Iler

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I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

Amber Mark

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We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

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We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

Mitchell Reiss

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I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Lisa Murkowski

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Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

Dionne Bromfield

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The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

Dennis C. Blair

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

Coretta Scott King

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