Susan Straight Quotes

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

Susan Straight

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1960

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Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

John Leo

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Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

John Mellencamp

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Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

Angelique Kerber

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I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

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Limos, from the beginning of time, they know who they're picking up, they usually have a credit card on file, they know where the pickup location is, and so there's essentially a prearrangement of sorts, and, of course, the limo customer knows the driver, knows the company, knows the rates. All we've done is make it more accessible.

Travis Kalanick

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I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lisa Gardner

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Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Jason Calacanis

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I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

Cory Monteith

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A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Ariel Gore

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Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.

Suzy Amis

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I love what I do, I love my job.

Pharrell Williams

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I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

Peter Mandelson

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