"There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line."
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"There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on."
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"There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win."
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"A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention."
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"I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive."
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"A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity."
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"Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?"
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"There is no color line in art."
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"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it."
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"There's nothing more difficult than a line."
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"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
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"Pray to God and say the lines."
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"Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse."
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"Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you."
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"Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit."
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"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."
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"The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it."
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"My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal."
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"Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."
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"Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated."
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