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.
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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 started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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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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When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
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If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
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The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.
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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.
