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Angus Deaton Quotes

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Angus Deaton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Equality Think Meaning Skin Against

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

Jenny Lewis

Art Think Misery I Think Created

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

Melonie Diaz

Family Women Strong Fierce Enough

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Family Friend Father Women Knowledge

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

Tony Gwynn

Me Advice Career Inside Contact Big

I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person... it doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Teacher Habit Think You Holiday

To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.

Rita Ora

Hair Forward Way Own Your Wigs

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

Rose Tremain

Beginning Me Writing Feel Plan Tell

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Jean Charest

History Identity Unity Never Been

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

Joshua Cohen

Writing Reading Way Safe Degree

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

Deepika Padukone

Good I Am Always Point Being Been

I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.

Brigitte Nielsen

Family Smile Best Parents Me You

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

Artur Davis

War Effort Know Now Run Will