Industry Quotes - Page 20

In case you haven't noticed, a large wall is being built around the American people to ensure that they remain prisoner to the drug industry. It's easy to understand why drug makers want to force Americans to buy their products in the United States. Ours is the only industrialized country that doesn't negotiate the prices the drug companies may charge. As a result, a 90-day supply of Fosamax sells for $105 in Canada but $210 here.

Froma Harrop

Country, Wall, People

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We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them pose no threat to the world's natural environment...economic development...so that more and more of the world's population can enjoy...the things which the energy industry supplies...(and) a society in which ideas and knowledge move freely.

John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

Moving, Ideas, Energy

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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel.

Ted Danson

Oil, Energy, Different

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Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

Charlie Dent

Light, Hydrogen Fuel, Energy

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I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where is the free-wheeling debate on this question? Only one force can stop this mission: the will of the American people. They have not been asked. Do they want to endanger their loved ones, their industry with this launch? One force is more powerful than plutonium, the spirit of the American people united.

Michio Kaku

Powerful, Loss, Space

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If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donna Reed

Judging, Safety, Risk

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

Winston Churchill

Reflection, Oil, Doubt

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Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'

Richard Kauffmann

People, Energy, Drains

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A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil industry hit geological boundaries, which meant that it could no longer maintain the historic growth rates in petroleum extraction.

Michael Kumhof

Impact, Keys, Oil

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Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

Barack Obama

Names, Energy, Cost

"Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap and Trade Plan". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.

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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

George Monbiot

Mean, Government, Oil

"We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.

Stella McCartney

Meat Industry, Decision, Energy

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Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

Barack Obama

Commitment, Technology, Wind

Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

Barack Obama

Jobs, Oil, Long

Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.

M. Russell Ballard

Attitude, Believe, Heart

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Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.

Mark Cuban

Business, Inspiration, Winning

"Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

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Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Mark Cuban

Jobs, Inspiration, Winning

"Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

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Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

Donald E. Westlake

Jobs, Book, Thinking

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Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

Carol Muske-Dukes

New York, Party, Men

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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

Ralph Nader

Country, Educational, Years

Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.381, Seven Stories Press

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The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence - which I think is under-resourced - our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations.

Gina Rinehart

Jobs, Communication, Opportunity

"The way forward for Australia by Gina Rinehart". Interview with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. November 23, 2012.

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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

Doris Lessing

Book, Writing, Criticism

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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.

Leon Trotsky

Fall, Mean, Culture

Leon Trotsky (1937). “The revolution betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it going?”, Doubleday, Doran

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You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

Rhianna

Fashion, Zero, Careers

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I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Adele

Self Esteem, Play, Careers

"Karl Lagerfeld Apologizes To Adele After Calling Her 'too Fat'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 09, 2012.

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