“A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.” CountryPlayMightCompanyEconomyConditionsSeekingCoreLowestWagesNikeFootloose Author:John J. Sweeney
“I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.” PeopleProblemGoneRecordsNo Problem Author:Marc Jacobs
“After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.” WorldNeedsWarEndsOrderLeaderVisionCreativityCreationColdWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarGovernanceMarketplaceDean Author:John J. Sweeney
“We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.” IfsRealityResultsWatchesWallPureShadowProfoundConvincedPassingPassingsPlatoCavesProjectionSimilarityEpochPlato SLive SimplyPassing OnPlato's Cave Author:Jose Saramago
“I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.” RolesInnocentNaiveOpheliaStiles Author:Julia Stiles
“If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.” IfsUseEyeFunFocusShadowRedBlueClubsHaving FunMascaraGongsEyelinerStiles Author:Julia Stiles
“If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.” IfsGuyWhiteTalk To MeMadly In LoveCranes Author:Leelee Sobieski
“My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.” FirstsBigsRememberStrongParentMemoriesBearsDancingMusicalTeddyQuartetsRehearsingTeddy BearVilla Author:Leonard Slatkin