Floyd Skloot Quotes
Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
Quotes to Explore
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.
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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
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But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.
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Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
