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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

Serj Tankian System Of A Down

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• The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Well

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Work
  • Mystery

• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Kid

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Artist
  • Obsessed

• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Way
  • Things
  • Child

• I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenge
  • Acceptance

• We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Hope
  • Focus
  • Need

• I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • School
  • Think
  • Impact

• I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Appreciate

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Business
  • Growth

• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Work
  • School
  • She

• Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Journey
  • Challenges

• Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

  

  Max Heindel

• I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Remember

• Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down