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• Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.

  Josh Tickell

  Oil, Today, Energy

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• There's more attention paid to entertainers than ever and less that they have to say. Not that entertainers were ever a great beacon of knowledge to begin with, but at least when the Beatles were the leaders of the culture, they had a message. It was brief; it wasn't terribly complicated. "Give Peace a Chance." "All You Need is Love." But at least they were trying. At least they had grown.

  Bill Maher

  Giving, Leader, Trying

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• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Thinking, Nina

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

  Roger Ailes

  Media, Looks, Levels

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Business empress, now super-surrogate: Can Ivanka Trump be dad’s deal-closer?" by Jennifer G. Hickey, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, College

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Attention, Fiction

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• The way the Europeans work, most girls get paid by their federation; their country pays them. Essentially the federations say go represent our country, race on whatever trade team you want, and here's your money. So you don't really make you're money on trade teams. Europeans make money through their country's federation. There's not a lot of money for women in cycling in Europe either.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Girl, Country, Team

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• There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes

  Bonnie Raitt

  War, Writing, Issues

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• Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Struggle

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• If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

  William H. Macy

  Independent, Choices, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

  William H. Macy

  Stories, Actors, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.

  Kevin Gutzman

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Interview With Kevin Gutzman On George Washington". "Mike Church Show", www.mikechurch.com. May 1, 2013.

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• Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Spring, Book, Writing

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.

  Mike Posner

  Kids, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

  Colin Kaepernick

  People, Killing, Given

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Attitude, Practice, Lips

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.

  Betty Lynn

  Taken, Texas, Play

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• I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.

  Adam Richman

  Country, Giving Up, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

  Adam Jacobs

  Nyu, Parent, Tuition

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  Garry Winogrand

  Kings, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

  Garry Winogrand

  Jobs, Thinking, Interesting

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• The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Opportunity, Russia, Years

  Source: thesaker.is

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• All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Differences, People, Musician

  Eric Hobsbawm (2014). “The Jazz Scene”, p.296, Faber & Faber

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