Leland Stanford Quotes
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.
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I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.
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I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
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What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.
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The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.