Frances O'Grady Quotes
The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I like to look glamorous sometimes, but its not the be all and end all. I can muck in as well.
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The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.
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But do remember that the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
