"...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them"

--

Annie Proulx

“I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything.”
“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
“Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.”
“Hollywood is Hollywood. Thereâ€™s nothing you can say about it that isnâ€™t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter â€” youâ€™re the one who sat down, and joined the game.”
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
“When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.”

Source : "HEDGE-FUND GOD KEN GRIFFIN: Our Government Is Ruining Our Country--That's Why I'm Giving Millions To Mitt Romney And The Koch Brothers" by Melissa Harris, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2012.
“Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”
“If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?”

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