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The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?

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• So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Success
  • Stars
  • Lose

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Mother
  • Sad
  • Cancer

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Want
  • Song

• I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Gay
  • Comfortable

• I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • People
  • Years
  • Model

• I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Want
  • Years
  • Company

• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Bad
  • Community
  • Failure

• Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Career
  • Like
  • Point

• I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Proud

• People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Support
  • Winning

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

  

  Karl Marx

• Caminante, son tus huellasel camino, y nada más;caminante, no hay camino,se hace camino al andar.Al andar se hace camino,y al volver la vista atrásse ve la senda que nuncase ha de volver a pisar.Caminante, no hay camino,sino estelas en la mar.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Son

• Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Order
  • Psychology
  • Produce

• I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.

  

  James Turrell
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Desert

• To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Decisions

• I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • House

• The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?

  

  David Autor