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It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness awakened. I learned how to cook, and eventually I became the food buyer for the entire co-op. Not long after that, I went to work for a small natural food store in Austin, and I became very excited and passionate about it.
John Mackey /
Austin
Awakened
Consciousness
Passionate
Vegetarian
Work Food Long
Buyer
Store
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My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe.
Sharon Needles / Drag Queen
Mom
Clothes
Enough
Entertaining
Heels
High Heels
Makeup
Reason
Thrift
Toys
Wanted
Mom Dress Me
Because
Had
Afford
Any
Box
Buy
Cause
High
Having
Wear
Her
Seemed
She
Store
Tells
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A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.
Nouriel Roubini / Economist
Assets
Currency
Gold
Groceries
Mean
Payment
Providing
Three
Wealth
Account
Functions
Prices
Services
Store
Unit
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In the middle of the Great Depression, George Jenkins, Jr. left his job at a grocery store and decided he would open up his own store. I am sure many people thought Mr. Jenkins was crazy, but he had a dream. Today, his chain of stores employs 127,000 Floridians and is the largest employee-owned company in the country. We know it as Publix.
Rick Scott / Governor Of Florida
Great Depression
Great Today I Am
Mr
Chain
Employs
George
Grocery
Grocery Store
Largest
Store
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Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.
Karen Katz /
Dallas
Department
Experts
Frenzy
Holiday
Holiday Season
Totally
Days
Department Store
Total
Far
Inexperienced
Season
Store
Wrapper
Youngest
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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
Christina Romer / Professor
Compensation
Financial
Focused
Heaven
Pay
Rewards
Risk-taking
Sensible
Shareholders
Short Term
Term
Efforts
Least
Minding
Regulatory
Store
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I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.
Norman Reedus / Actor
Girl
Jobs
Bunch
Hills
Japan
Los Angeles
Motorcycle
Party
Yelling
Agent
Me Night People
Angeles
Ended
Followed
Los
Quit
Store
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Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.
Peter Schiff / Author
Able
Debt
Dollars
Federal Reserve
Gold
Problem
Food Always Your
Buy
Dollar
Federal
Spend
Intrinsic
Lose
Mortgages
Reserve
Store
The Problem With
Value
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I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
Jeff Dunham / Ventriloquist
Legs
Plastic
Version
Cheap
Doll
Material
Store
Toy
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When you search for Fortnite on iOS, you'll often get PUBG or Minecraft ads. Whoever bought that ad in front of us is the top result when searching for Fortnite. It's just a bad experience. Why not just make the game available direct to users, instead of having the store get between us and our customers and inject all kinds of cruft like that?
Tim Sweeney / Computer Programmer
Ads
Available
Customers
Direct
Users
Why Not
Ad
Bought
Fortnite
Front
Instead
Result
Search
Store
Whoever
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In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant.
Richard Stallman / Activist
Legal
Data
Legal Rights
Machines
Police
Server
Search
Showing
Store
Warrant
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I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they're at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They're in a bubble the whole time.
Alec Baldwin / Actor
Bathroom
Feet
Garage
Living Room
Los Angeles
Office
Parking
Valet
Touch
Angeles
Life Time Car
Bubble
Life Car Time
Insulated
Los
Next Thing
Restaurant
Store
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
Aaron Rodgers / Athlete
Grass
Normal Things
Talents
Everybody Else
From Time To Time
Grocery
Grocery Store
Store
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