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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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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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
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I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships financial overseers and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.
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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.
