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“Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.”

Way Risk Share Amount Innovation Rewards Chains Crucial Immense Public Sector Risk And Reward

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“First, creating moving-image particles using MoCap technology requires a very complex and long production pipeline. Moreover, rendering these particles takes a lengthy amount of time.”

Firsts Long Moving Technology Amount Creating Complexes Productions Particles Rendering Pipeline Lengthy

Author:Martine Epoque

“I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.”

People Country Audience Amount Males Singers Stakes Looking Forward Rumor

Author:Callie Khouri

“The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.”

Years Lasts Streets Wall Amount Workers Income Last Year Minimum Minimum Wage Bonus Obscene

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“The only time it`s ever like work is when you don`t like what you`ve done. I`m very lucky in that I haven`t cultivated fame. Which, from what I`ve seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they`re successful at it ... Especially people that aren`t such talented actors.”

People Done Actors Successful Havens Amount Fame Lucky Enormous Only Time

Author:Val Kilmer

“In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.”

Ifs Ends Shows Honesty Amount Understood Adults Enormous Love And Honesty

Author:Tom Ford

“It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.”

Sometimes Amount Majors Loyalty Punishment Bitter Unhappiness Bitter Experience

Author:Gordon Allport

“The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.”

Ideas Whole House Fronts Baby Amount Activity Department Yards Interiors Enterprising Irrepressible

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.”

Men Littles Dangerous Amount Great Men Little Man Small Amounts Power Corrupts Small Man Little Knowledge Great Knowledge Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Leonard J. V. Compagno

“American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.”

Real Vision Class Amount Perception Disaster Familiar Decline Ruling Apocalyptic

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.”

Jobs Nations Causes Natural Results Company Progress Amount Taxes Labor Complexes Operations Experts Regulation Employers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.”

Theory Months Ought Amount Intelligent Instruction Entertaining Engineers Calculus

Author:G. H. Hardy

“It's good to be aware that a certain amount of fear is going to accompany every change in your life - a change for the worse or a change for the better. Knowing this can stop you from moving into fear about Change Itself. If you start fearing change generically you could wind up shrinking from ever making any kind of change at all for the rest of your day - even a change that obviously should be made for your own good.”

Ifs Should Kind Made Moving Certain Knowing Wind Amount Accompany Shrinking Change For The Better

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.”

“To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.”

Knows World Today Natural Careers Fields Amount Scientist Function Mathematics Disaster Experts Natural World Prescriptions Today's World Specialization Ultras

Author:John L. Casti

“Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.”

Knows Reason Dream Kids Jobs Hate Next Realizing Sleep Wife Risk Worst Amount Couple Kings Bed Safe Married Worst Things Hate You Sleeping In Playing It Safe Futons Jobs You Hate

Author:Bill Burr

“The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.”

Wells Share Information Amount Charity Financial Spread Online Site Evaluate Donors Nonprofits Navigators

Author:Bill Gates

“Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.”

Giving Might Effort Amount Investment Profit Stakes Philanthropy

Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.”

“The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.”

Men Doe Wise Amount Pleasant Rejects Fear Of Death

Author:Epicurus

“The top stars like Angelina, Cameron (Diaz), Sandra Bullock and probably now Jennifer Lawrence probably gets paid the same as their male counterparts. The problem is the averages. Because there are not enough parts for women to star in and get paid. So when you look at the total amount women make as compared to men it's paltry.”

Men Looks Enough Problem Stars Amount Paid Males Average Counterparts Jennifer Cameron

Author:Amy Pascal

“There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."”

Amount Police Train Corruption Enormous Afghanistan Thug Adviser

Author:Jeff Merkley

“I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.”

People Thinking Men Use Seems Young Individual Force Black Ability Lord Car Amount Lifetime Video Disturbed

Author:Rand Paul

“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.”

Ifs Long Book Different Form Dies Reading Stuff Morning Seeing Week Minutes Amount Get Up Gym Schedules Embarrassing Email Urgent Tweet Kindles Server

Author:Maria Popova

“I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.”

Quality Havens Amount Offers Findings Everyday Versus Quality Work

Author:Romany Malco

“A lot of British actors will look at America as a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.”

Firsts Looks America Actors Opportunity Land Color Amount England British Pool Small Amounts Land Of Opportunity

Author:Aml Ameen

“I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.”

Ifs Lines Millions Special Amount Couple Draws Dollars Instance Corporations Lots Of Money Ceo Million Dollars

Author:Robert Crumb

“What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use.”

Knows Want Use Energy Company Car Huge Amount Oil Reports Gas Electricity Gasoline Refining Oil Companies Energy Use Refinery

Author:Chris Paine

“In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.”

Certain Cases Hell Amount Terrible Models Marketing Gas Pushing Toyota Mileage Prius

Author:Chris Paine

“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.”

People Knows Animal Issues Pieces Amount Six Eating Welfare Meat Throwing Efficient Calories Animal Welfare Recycling Throwing Away Wastefulness

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.”

People Ifs Thinking Cases Week Special Changed Amount Habit One Day Meat Farms Convenient Small Amounts Festive Special Things

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I'm excited about mobile; clearly that's important. Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. We're excited at the idea that we can make the same kind of contribution in the mobile space. So that's one thing coming down the pike.”

Kind Important Ideas Ends Can Do Space One Thing Amount Fairs Opposites Excited Contribution Devices Mobile

Author:Mitchell Baker

“You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document "internal use only," "official use only," and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to "none of your business" to the public.”

People Feels Writing Use Government Millions Amount Comfortable Officials Internals Documents Synonym Contractor None Of Your Business

Author:Ted Gup

“Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.”

Used Common Cities Air Amount Capacity Atmosphere Parks Carbon Unlimited Coal Truck Utility Dump Carbon Dioxide Methane Externalities Slag City Parks

Author:Jay Inslee

“If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.”

Ifs Needs Amount Newspapers Magazines Excitement Etc Criticize Overdrive

Author:Frank Rich

“Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.”

World Years States United United States Amount Oil Usa Coal

Author:Tim Holden

“Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.”

Want Feels Shows Girl Study Violence Amount Guilt Apologizing Second Thoughts

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.”

People Stills States Hate United United States Amount Having Hope Pinnacle Disheartening

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.”

Looks Feelings Hands Speak Waiting Rooms Tears Amount Standing Patient Compare Look At Me Superhero Gratification Superhuman Waiting Rooms Ovation

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.”

Ideas Happens Certain Interesting Talking Stage Materials Amount Manifest Interesting Ideas

Author:Ted Alexandro

“There are many options in a marriage. If the couple has been together for a certain amount of time and has a certain amount of liberalism or life experience, it could be the kind of relationship in which one partner ventures into the occasional affair, which is then forgiven. This only happens every 13 years on average, but it obviously does occur.”

Ifs Years Kind Doe Has Beens Happens Together Certain Amount Couple Affair Average Partners Liberalism Life Experience Venture Forgiven Occasional

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort.”

Should Firsts Believe States Lasts Used I Believe Ability Amount Economics Resorts Quota

Author:Kristina Schroder

“I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.”

Thinking Men Different Kids Certain Roles Amount Married Expectations Overcoming Gender Partnership Gender Roles Housework

Author:Alison Pill

“The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small donors. Meanwhile, the amount of people, the incumbents being reelected has just been - that has been going up and up and up.”

People Has Beens Helping Amount More Money Donors Incumbents Rigged

Author:David Brooks

“I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.”

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Author:Patrik Sinkewitz

“It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.”

Want Compassion Amount Capable And Love Revenge Immense Love And Forgiveness

Author:Naomie Harris

“We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Different Language Wish Materials Amount Decades Contemporary Landscape Acknowledge Sheer

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.”

Knows Giving Feels Has Beens Made Would Be Felt Advice Fine Amount Directors Shots Fairs Give Me Cameron

Author:Timothy Miller

“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.”

Writing Has Beens Done Law Courses Share Amount Percent Extraordinary Accomplished Lions Frank Adopted Eighty Dodd Frank

Author:Mary Schapiro

“A basic all-purpose rub: mix together one or two tablespoons equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, and onion powder. That will give you real good base for any kind of meat. Just increase the amount if you're grilling large quantities.”

Ifs Giving Kind Two Real Together Purpose Black Amount Equal Increase Meat Quantity Onions Powder Peppers Garlic Grilling Black Pepper

Author:Johnny Trigg

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