Steve Largent (Stephen Michael Largent) Quotes
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
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A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.
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It was a real shame that the technology wasn't up to the creation that was going on with quad. It just wasn't reaching the consumer in the right way.
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When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand.
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Impact on consumer spending and production broadly will be modest.
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Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
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My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
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If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.
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Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.
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I feel like I was led to believe something that's not true. I think the consumer is being misled.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.
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I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
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Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.
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A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
