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.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• 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.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • May
  • Age
  • Know

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Family
  • History
  • Want

• 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?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • World
  • Believe
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Music
  • New
  • Update

• We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and I think that kind of helps us stay focused on what's important - and that is the music, our fans, and our families.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Music
  • Important

• I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Women
  • France

• I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Up
  • Black
  • Proud

• Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Author
  • Reader

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Society
  • Best
  • Value