Angus Deaton Quotes

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who are left behind, through effective social services and provision.

Angus Deaton

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PeoplePresentSeemWhoAbsent

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Jenny Zhang

LoveSuccessMotherDreamsFreedom

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Jenifer Lewis

LifeMyselfHumorWritingSaying

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Robert H. Schuller

MoneyProblemYouNeverAlwaysIdea

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

WomenWomanManWorldWrongCreate

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

Trent Reznor

EffortGameTryingDutyGamesGone

Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany... you will never hear somebody say, 'The Stasi never bothered me because I didn't have anything to hide.' That's not a thing that people say.

Trevor Paglen

PeopleMeSocietyToolsYouHide

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Tom Stoppard

InterestingEasyYouSayDirector

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

Ruth Reichl

LifeMeThinkMy LifeKindHard

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Louis Farrakhan

LeaderMoneyFinanceSmallRich

Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.

Cherie Blair

RelationshipRespectHappyLawFree

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

Bob Seger

MusicMoneyTalentWayAlwaysHigh

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