Oil Quotes
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Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
Veerappa Moily
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We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
Ted Danson
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
Pankaj Mishra
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God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
Jim Elliot
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I believe that data is the new oil. I am saying it in this country because I believe that the prosperity that oil brought in the last 50 years, data will bring in the next 50, 100 years if you use it the right way.
Ajaypal Singh Banga
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
Frances Beinecke
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My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
Wole Soyinka
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
Barack Obama
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Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price
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Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.
Nicolae Ceausescu
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If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.
William Randolph Hearst
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I led by three or four feet, with Biggy John Biglow surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.
Brad Alan Lewis
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Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
Banksy
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
M. King Hubbert
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
Anna Friel
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I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.
Lynn Barber
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
Ahmed Chalabi
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Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.
Karen Chance
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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
Bonaventure
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Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
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Even if we were to sign peace today, the economic conditions in our country would not improve automatically because it will take some time to reach the level of oil production before the war and the oil prices are likely to remain low for some time as the supply of oil in the world is high and demand is low.
Salva Kiir Mayardit