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“I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.”

Thinking Giving Believe Ability Technology Security Trade Privacy Trade Offs

Author:John Poindexter

“Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.”

“We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.”

“I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.”

Knows Next Winning Difficult Loss Wonderful Events Trade Series Difficult Times Always Believe Overrated Wonderful Times Trade Offs Wins And Losses

Author:Brad Pitt

“To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.”

People Wells Kind Father Animal Behinds Alive Dog Died Yeah Trade Sorry Animal Rights Experimentation Trade Offs Animal Rights Activists Animal Activist Dog Died Animal Experimentation

Author:Bill Maher

“Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.”

People Knows Wells Certain Courses Energy Risk Magic Amount Blame Trade Disappointment Boring Repetition Predictability Trade Offs New Work

Author:Bill Watterson

“The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.”

“We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.”

World Humans Reality Natural Existence Steps Rights Ignorance Trade Human Rights Civil Rights Arrogance Natural World Small Parts Natural Rights Trade Offs

Book:Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation

Source: Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation

“There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.”

Solutions Trade Conservative Trade Offs

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.”

Trade Favors Rational Grass Feds Corn Suggesting Trade Offs

Author:Joel Salatin

“My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.”

Together Jobs Actors House Brother Mom Responsible Trade My Mom My Brother Trade Offs

Author:Beau Bridges

“Every country has it trade offs.”

Country Trade Trade Offs

Author:Peter Tork

“Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.”

“Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.”

People Thinking Careers Successful Stronger Trade Authenticity Loud Worth It Opinionated Trade Offs

Author:Jessica Valenti

“On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.”

Writing Real Hands Song Bits Voice Records Style Trade Stuck Trade Offs

Author:Cynthia Weil

“That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.”

Thinking Wells Important Done Moments Motivational Political Motivation Felt Deals Leader Figures Survival Trade Worthy That Moment Trade Offs

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.”

Years Made Computer Years Ago Trade Fifty Trade Offs

Book:Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

Source: Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

“Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.”

Ifs Knows Wells Doe Jobs Certain Causes Bits Huge Limits Labor Destruction Machines Raises Trade Careful Great Things Pushing Minimum Minimum Wage Substitution Jurisdiction Trade Offs Pushing It

Author:Bill Gates

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.”

Hard Hands Winning Differences Hard Work Discipline Trade Embrace Punishment Winner Loser Trade Offs

Author:Lou Holtz

“Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.”

Made Comfort Trade Memorable Duration Uneasiness Trade Offs

Book:The Fuck Up

Source: The Fuck Up

“Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.”

Different Politics Groups Policy Fundamentals Trade Trade Offs Macroeconomics

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.”

People Ifs Feels Helping Term Realizing My Own Struggle Sacrifice Inspire Comfort Gay Trade Hearing Apples Privacy Activist Ceo Trade Offs

Author:Tim Cook

“I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.”

Kind Stills I Can Wanted Film Balance Conscious Trade Dear Climbs Steady Trade Offs Dear John

Author:Channing Tatum

“There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.”

People Ifs Needs Mean Doe Social Growth Democracy Trade Protection Trade Offs

Author:Michelle Bachelet