Martha Beck Quotes
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
Yuji Horii -
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
Leading from behind doesn't work.
Ted Cruz -
I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
Action Bronson -
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
Nadia Comaneci -
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
Becky G
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
Ted Yoho -
I'm a child of the Sixties.
Ian McShane -
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Ornette Coleman -
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Al Jarreau -
The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
Dar Williams -
Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
Ken Levine -
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
Martha Beck