"I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest."

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Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

Haskell Wexler

#People Quotes #Interest Quotes

“If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.”
“Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!”
“Being poor is a normal thing.”
“Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still know nothing about the life force - about the basic difference between being alive and not being alive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.”
“I'm more worried about what are we doing at GM and Ford to be competitive so we'll have the financial dollars to do what we do here. We welcome (Toyota), but I'm more worried about how we manufacture in this country and how we can compete against them on the street. I know our whole point is to race on Sunday and sell on Monday. We just need to have good business models at Ford and GM so we can compete on the street.”
“Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.”
“Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.”

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