Alain J. P. Belda Quotes
We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.
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Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.
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We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.
