Billions Quotes - Page 2

• One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Gambling, People, Population

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Birthday, Cute Life, Cells

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• Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

  Max Delbruck

  Science, Cells, Years

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• New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Giving, Rumor

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• I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

  Pete Conrad

  Thinking, Two, Space

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

  Gary Miller

  America, Care, Hospitals

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Hope, Country, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

  George M. Humphrey

  Money, Jobs, Dollars

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• The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Pet, World

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• Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Money, Business

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• In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

  Elton Gallegly

  Average, Years, California

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Soul, World

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  John Spratt

  War, Cost, Kingdoms

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• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Years, Drug, Colombia

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• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Japan, Iraq, United States

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• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  Ralph Merkle

  People, Population, Today

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• Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

  Sherrod Brown

  Party, Government, Republican

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• The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

  Robert Byrd

  War, Mistake, Iraq

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• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Opportunity, Hands

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  "Carly Fiorina on 'Your World'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2010.

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• If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Tunes

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