#ripped

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

#chooses #crime #ethical #group #philosophical

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#business #deal #defeat #different #different way

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#already #dancers #enough #given #know

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#others #outstripped #pay #people #real

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#fact #i #i do #many #off

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#break #diversity #feel #greatest #greatest strength

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#any #bare #blew #completely #door

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#came #drama #drama school #extrovert #how

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#companies #crisis #doctors #facing #give

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#i #invest #mind #money #off