Trade Quotes - Page 23

• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Mvp, Nba

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• First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

  Frank Sartor

  Running, Assessment, Land

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

  David Brooks

  Military, Order, Play

  "David Brooks: Rand Paul 'Leading The Party One Way, Marco Rubio Is Leading Another'". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Past, Night

  "Paul Weller heads across the universe on 'Saturns Pattern'". Associated Press interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 10, 2015.

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• Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.

  George Herbert

  Children, Portions

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.143

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• Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

  Don Davis

  Blessing, Pleasure, Temporary

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• I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.

  Danny Ainge

  Plans, Pierce

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• I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

  Segolene Royal

  Europe, Want, Social

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• Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.

  John Leo

  Wine, Espresso, Roots

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• I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

  David Shuster

  Zero, People, Towers

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• I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

  David Crosby

  White, Musician, Singers

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

  Buddy Ryan

  Football, Team, Sight

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• Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Cities, Towers, Culture

  Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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• Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

  David Stern

  Smart, Agents, Management

  "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  Yochai Benkler

  New York, Children, Village

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Best Practices, Principles, Ends

  "Philip Zimbardo on the Two Types of Heroes". bigthink.com.

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• Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Real, Agreement, World

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• There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Population, Form, Educated

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• Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Law, Becoming, Problem

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• Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

  Emily Oster

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Fiction, Tactics

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• The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

  Andrew Lo

  Opportunity, United States, Doe

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• A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Educational, Wine, Interesting

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