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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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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That enables those companies to then build in some value-added features.
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I'm trying to accept the idea that there's a different definition of what matters now. The rating for James Corden at 12:30 at night doesn't matter as much as the number of hits he gets on YouTube when he goes driving around with Adele. There are old dogs out there doing new tricks, and I got to recognize them.
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I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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When you touch me, good God.
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I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.
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I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.