Anthony Foxx Quotes
The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
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We'd be nowhere without our looks.
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On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?
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The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.
