Ralph Nader Quotes
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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There's something healing about tears.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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Orange bright,Like golden lamps in a green light.
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Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.
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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
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In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player who played for them, who is still alive today, Willie Henderson. I met up with him recently when Benfica played celtc again.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
