Alissa Quart Quotes

As consumers, we can pressure corporations both to monitor and improve workplace conditions overseas - when inspections reveal violations, these companies should address the gaps immediately.

Alissa Quart

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PressureWorkplaceImproveReveal

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

Joachim de Posada

LifeCommunityPeopleCountryPerson

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

Jerry Springer

BusinessSchoolMeHigh SchoolYou

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

John Doerr

OpportunityEnvironmentalEconomic

God bless Neymar because this boy has changed the lives of kids in Brazil. A lot of children watch him, believe they can be the next Neymar. Sometimes, you have a great opportunity to change and impact the lives of kids.

Anderson Silva

ChangeGodOpportunityChildrenYou

Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.

Michael Greger

AnimalsBuildUnknownMoreMeatUp

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.

Michael Aspel

AgeTodayStartYoungGenuineFirst

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

Robert B. Laughlin

WorkPlaceOutsideDaysVarietyMIT

I was on a beach in Hawaii for a video shoot once, and it was incredibly beautiful. It had very fine black sand with a silver sparkle running through it.

Louise Nurding

BeautifulBeachSparkleBlackSand

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

Don Cheadle

GrowthFunJoyMeFar AwayPersonal

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Denis Diderot

PeopleControlAlwaysOutWatchWho

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Davy Crockett

DeadWouldRatherThanPolitically

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

HistoryRiverWineHumanTakeOur

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