#rod

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cent #consumers #domestic #doubled #gross

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#becoming #college #director #eye #primarily

The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consequence #even #exhaustion #export #labour

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed. ↗

— Curtis Carlson

#company #desired #dollar #long #needed

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. ↗

— Tom Felton

#club #club scene #daniel #dueling #end

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. ↗

— Jerry Della Femina

#better #business #deal #faster #good

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#certain #come #existence #fiction #into

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. ↗

— Angela Carter

#art #become #direct #enslave #evolved

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#artist #attention #confine #finds #greater