P. J. Plauger Quotes
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.
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Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those machines where you buy doughnuts, those vending machines with the long johns and doughnuts. We would buy those bagels and pastries because that was our treat. And come back with shopping bags of these sweets, and who knows what was in it? That was what we could afford that could feed that many people.
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After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.
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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
