"The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense."

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Source : Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.268, Yale University Press

Martin Wolf

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“My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.”
“I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.”
“The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror,”
“The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.”
“I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.”
“I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.”
“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.”

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