Ai-jen Poo Quotes
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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I only know one thing. I have been bred through the Heat organization to do it one way. And every day, you prepare.
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Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
