Steven Burd (Steven A. Burd) Quotes
In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
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The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
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I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.
