Ida Tarbell Quotes
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.Ida Tarbell
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
Tamron Hall -
My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
Canelo Alvarez -
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz -
I love recording music.
J. J. Abrams -
I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
Natalie Cole -
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
Origen
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Park Chan-wook -
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
Carlene Carter -
Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Taye Diggs -
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Ed Rendell -
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
Naftali Bennett -
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai Lama -
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple -
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis -
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
Barton Gellman
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
Joe Haldeman -
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
Billy Joel -
Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.
Ida Tarbell