Ratchets Quotes

• We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Reality, Names, Would Be

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.124, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I'm not afraid to have the ratchet side because that's a part of me too. I like to turn up, I am from Oakland. But at the same time, there's still a classy side to me that I've seen in Oakland as well.

  Adrian Marcel

  Oakland, Sides, Not Afraid

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• When we recorded [Moana], I would do all of the stuff and then save all the big screaming for last so that you can really blow it out and ratchet it up every time, get that perfect panicked pitch.

  Alan Tudyk

  Blow, Perfect, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.

  Demetri Martin

  Heckling, Rooms, Helping

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• By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Sea, Alabama

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult.

  Michael Davies

  Running, Real, Opportunity

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• I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots

  Vinnie Paz

  Unorthodox, Shots

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Gob

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• When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Government, Levels

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