William Feather Quotes
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
Quotes to Explore
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I actually have some family that's from Missouri, and my husband is an outrageous St. Louis Cardinals fan, so we go to St. Louis every once in a while to go see baseball games.
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I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
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The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.
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I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.
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In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
