Michael Specter Quotes
I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.
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The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
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We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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The era of the traditional software 'load, update and upgrade' business and technology model is over, ... It is time for 'The Business Web.' ... Just as mainframe companies struggled for relevance in the client-server era, Microsoft finds itself in a worse position today, facing not just the obsolescence of a technology model, but a business model as well.
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My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
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Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
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Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I think the consolidation will continue. A huge development is mobility. We want the content where we are....producers need to be where the consumers want them to be.
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Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits. That is fine. This is America.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
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Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.
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One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.
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I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
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A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
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Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
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I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.
