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“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.”

World Made Beautiful Guy Song Black Sun Strange Sitting Towns Extraordinary Radio Setting Settings Dust Beach Iron Latin Covered Gray Contrast Steel Port Brazil Tuning Escapists Iron Ore

Author:Terry Gilliam

“If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good”

Ifs Want Together Tree Car Couple Bunch Sand Iron Cows Slap Rubber Iron Ore

Author:Patricia C. Wrede

“Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.”

Seems Purpose Suffering Strong Grows Fire Trials Iron Steel Furnaces Iron Ore

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'”

People World Two Asks Water Pay My Friends Thirds Bills Oil Iron Iron Ore

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.”

Men Mean Bigs Earth Artist Games Building Painting Creating West Iron Pens Construction Brushes Shovels Molding Building Things Iron Ore

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

Inspiration Limits Gold Educational Educated Iron Iron Ore

Book:What Is Man? And Other Essays

Source: What Is Man? And Other Essays

“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.”

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, Pechblende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another more appropriate name. I have chosen that of Uranium, as a kind of memorial, that the chemical discovery of this new metal happened in the period of astronomical discovery of the new planet Uranus.”

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

People Work Creativity Creative Modern Innovation Access Iron Steel Workplace Coal Creative People Modern Business Iron Ore

Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.”

Use Motivational Source Iron Steel Captives Iron Ore

Author:Lakshmi Mittal