"A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it."

-- Andre Calantzopoulos

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“Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.”
“A little of what you fancy does you good.”
“We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.”
“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.”
“The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.
“We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.”
“There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.”

Source : "Director Dan Scanlon Talks MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, Landing His Directorial Debut, Who He Went to for Advice and the Film’s Technological Advancements". Press Day Interview, collider.com. June 18, 2013.
“I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.”

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