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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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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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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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.
