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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

• There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Reason
  • Sexy
  • Kill

• When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Husband

• Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Technology
  • Holiday

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Change
  • Universe
  • Century

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

  

  David Autor