#place

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#china #competitiveness #costs #education #factors

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #community #directly #else

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#fact #food #had #i #in fact

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#aware #columbia #el salvador #haiti #happens

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#half #hour #i #more #place

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#i #i can #israel #only #outside

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there. ↗

— Larry David

#committed #couple #doing #first #fortunate

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. ↗

— Larry David

#eat #fight #fighting #get #like

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish. ↗

— Larry David

#fish #i #learned #night #order