Upton Sinclair Quotes
The methods by which the 'Empire of Business' maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.Upton Sinclair
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
Rachel Nichols -
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Ralph Allen -
I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
Vicki Lawrence -
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
Laura Fraser -
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
Taylor Wilson -
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
Wanda Jackson -
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
Tanith Lee -
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks -
Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
Zach Galifianakis
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot -
Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
Pat Robertson -
If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
Pat Robertson -
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
Vic Willis -
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
Laura Schlessinger -
Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
Drew Brees -
Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.
John Cameron Mitchell -
Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
Donald Hall -
When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.
Mary Elizabeth Lease -
I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.
Lucy Griffiths -
The methods by which the 'Empire of Business' maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.
Upton Sinclair