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It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Idea
  • Starting
  • Studying

• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Movies

• I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • High
  • President
  • Hands

• One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • American
  • Tools
  • Accusation

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Rules
  • China
  • Dare

• We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Live
  • Information economy

• True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

  

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

  

  Nestor Carbonell
  • Writing
  • Follow
  • Recognize

• My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

  

  Joseph Howe
  • Right
  • Questions
  • Public Life

• It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Questions
  • Companies
  • Fluctuations