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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.

B. Joseph Pine II

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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• I'm a very proud actor.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Very

• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Been
  • Poets
  • Influenced

• I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Like
  • Listen
  • Sing

• When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Father

• J.Crew's a great brand.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Great

• Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Why
  • Food
  • Alone

• As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

  

  Marc Platt

• The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.

  

  The Boz

• The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Time
  • War
  • Small

• Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Space

• The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Challenge

• I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • People
  • Business

• When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • May
  • Christian

• The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

  

  Christopher Fowler

• I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

  

  John Otway
  • Pretty
  • Star

• I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Supposed

• Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Government

• We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.

  

  David E. Bonior
  • Reality
  • Needs
  • Chinese

• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Technology
  • Facts
  • Dancer

• Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.

  

  B. Joseph Pine II
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