Harold Simmons Quotes

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.

Harold Simmons

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ChangeFactsTryingCompanyImage

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Jimmy Iovine

SuccessCultureYouNiceHighMove

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

Jesse Ventura

SonWarSomeoneYouWillingYour

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

John Connolly

EmpathyEvilAbsenceBeenIdea

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

Amanda de Cadenet

BrotherParentsMindMeBelieve

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Sonia Sotomayor

BalanceActionTryTestingOut

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

Sia

MusicWomanManBodyGaySometimes

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PoliceFebruaryRevolutionNever

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

Travis Kalanick

ThinkEngineersBuildStorytelling

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

Michael Pollan

GoodMeBuildDevelopmentWayLand

I think me and Werdum got some old beef from Strikeforce. He's a guy I've always wanted to fight. I've thought it through, and I like the style matchup.

Luke Rockhold

StyleFightMeThinkThoughtOld

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Joshua Bell

MusicArtYouUnderstandProfound

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.

Dorothy Hamill

MusicPassionHopeChildrenParents

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