Barbi Benton Quotes

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

Barbi Benton

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• This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Fierce
  • Apple
  • Google

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
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• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Him

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
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• I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Research
  • Finance

• It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Why
  • Way
  • Ownership

• On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Blue

• The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Real
  • Evil

• Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Now
  • Going
  • Eyelashes

• The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Way
  • Growth

• I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

  

  Peter Krause
  • Pretty
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• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Best

• I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

  

  Barbi Benton
  • Born
  • I Believe
  • Coats