143 Quotes by F. Stone

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    This trade is governed by the desire of people in the West to purchase these items; it's similar to the drug trade,

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    With Andrew, you had a concentrated area, very heavy damage and destruction. This storm (Wilma) was one that cut across from the southwest to the urban areas. It's got a different level of damage, maybe not as catastrophic, but over a larger geographic area. So you have a lot more people affected by Wilma.

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    (The project) came to me. If it hadn't come to me, I wouldn't have done it. (The script) just hit me between the eyes.

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    There are probably more (now) than there were 100 years ago. It's kind of neat that they've come back. (Decades ago) they were very, very rare -- anywhere.

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    The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. Even if we loathe our families, in order to know ourselves, we seem to need to know about them, just as prologue. Not to know is to live with some of the disorientation and anxiety of the amnesiac.

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    The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

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    We know all about those numbers. We've talked about that a lot. That's one thing we've struggled with all year. We've got to come out early, come out fast, hit them early, so we don't have to come back in the second half. We have to get momentum early.

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