Alain J. P. Belda Quotes
We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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The more waste humans accumulate, the more they must eat to stop the elimination.
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We are experiencing the bottom-line impact of productivity improvements and the elimination of waste.
