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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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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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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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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I remember staring at the computer screen-light green letters on dark-then at the clock, and finally at my outstretched fingers held a foot in front of my face. And then it dawned on me: selling the hours of my life was no different from selling my fingers one by one. We've only so many hours, so many fingers; when they're gone, they're gone for good.
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People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
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I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
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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.
