Ida Tarbell Quotes
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
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The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.
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... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
