Jim Ratcliffe Quotes
Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
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High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
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I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
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Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
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Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.
