Oil Quotes - Page 21

• I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

  Boris Vallejo

  Color, Quality, Dry

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• Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Vegetables, Typical, Soy

  "Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes?" by Mark E. Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

  Simon Kuper

  Football, Oil Business, Stupidity

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• Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

  Ralph Nader

  Answers, Paper, Ecology

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Wall, Boys

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.

  Dick Trickle

  Wall, Winning, Race

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• The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Top Down, Energy, Society Today

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• Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Shells, Demand, Easy

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• I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

  Tristan Jones

  Running, Waiting, Sailing

  Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Men, Midnight

  "Scientific Advertising".

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• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Ducks, Feelings

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• Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Snakes, Medicine, Found

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• If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

  Noah S. Sweat

  Wine, Mean, Men

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• It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

  Larry Wachtel

  Earning, Flow, Twins

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• It's becoming a day-to-day struggle between bears and bulls. Once oil and yields move to highs, the bears take advantage. Those are the twin dreadnoughts of the market. But earnings news has been strong and has kept bulls on top.

  Larry Wachtel

  Strong, Struggle, Moving

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• The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Inspiring, Technology, Energy

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• I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Feet, Light, Water

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• It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

  Virgil Goode

  Moving, Important, United States

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• If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

  Jeff Goodell

  Wall, Thinking, Bigs

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• A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

  Jane McGonigal

  Availability, Dramatic, Decrease

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• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Country, Commitment

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• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

  Peter DeFazio

  Meaningful, Campaigns, Want

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• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Rick Renzi

  Meaningful, Moving, America

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• What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?

  Barbara Boxer

  Thinking, Environmental, Yosemite

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  America, Environmental, Energy

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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