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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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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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
