Sharan Burrow Quotes

Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government.

Sharan Burrow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: December 12, 1954

Topics

CommunityJobGovernmentSlowEnough

I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.

Jerry Della Femina

WorkMoneyHateYouBackSay

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Matthew Pearl

VillainBookNegativeStoryPowerful

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Cartwright

ParentsPeopleMeWorldWeekNever

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Ama Ata Aidoo

ManMeAlwaysLikeWroteHad

When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many people who are working 60-70 hours a week, and they are effectively working 20 hours for free because they are making a little bit above the minimum wage, because the 2004 regulation enables employers to do that. That's not fair.

Tom Perez

WorkPeopleFreeWeekYouLabor

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

Robin Givhan

FashionClothesResultsOutsidePure

We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.

Mike McCready

BusinessSmallDoingRockWayTry

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jason Kilar

LookingKnowImportantRelationships

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

Jason Newsted

PeopleYearYouLookBackWay

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

Dominick Cruz

TimeFightIdentityWorldChampion

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

Christopher Guest

TimeChildMeGrowing UpMeaning

The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

Christopher Guest

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