Alexi Giannoulias Quotes
We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.
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Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
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When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.
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I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.
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We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
