Lloyd Dorfman Quotes
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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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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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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We should all love animals.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
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Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.
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Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.
