Daniel De Leon Quotes
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.
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Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.
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Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
