Alfred Kahn Quotes
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
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The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
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There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.
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One falls in love without thinking!
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.
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Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.
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The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.
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We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
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This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
