#om

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#jersey #mom #princess

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#got #grates #had #i #integrity

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#depths #despair #forward #go #got

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water. ↗

— Susan George

#always #around #because #book #bottle

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol. ↗

— Susan George

#automobiles #build #carbon #consume #consumption

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. ↗

— Susan George

#disaster #economy #lead #only #society

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. ↗

— Susan George

#countries #developed #developing #europe #got

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing. ↗

— Susan George

#acquisitions #actually #called #course #downsizing

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. ↗

— Susan George

#buy #contrary #dietary #first #first thing

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? ↗

— Susan George

#commodity #education #fight #healthcare #marketable