Billions Quotes - Page 20

• Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Thought Provoking, Dollars

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• Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Heart, Loss, Blood

  Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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• You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
  Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
  Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...
  But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  Aceyalone

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

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• One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Law, Land

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.

  Bill Press

  Discipline, Political, Cost

  Bill Press (2008). “Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons

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• Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.

  Paul Dowling

  Ignorance, Reality, Perception

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• Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, People, Three

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• We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.

  Pete Cashmore

  Business, Radio, Tvs

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by ete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  Reince Priebus

  Senior, Retirement, Cutting

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• When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Price Tag, Kind

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• Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Rip, Home, Cutting

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• I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Soccer, Team, Eye

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

  Sarah Palin

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

  Sumner Redstone

  Mtv, Investing, Fads

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• Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

  Gordon Wu

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

  Jeff Goodell

  Weather, Damage, Economic

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• To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  Simon Boswell

  Littles, Steps, Conformity

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• In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.

  John Pilger

  Mother, Eight, Land

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• Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Proud, Helping

  "Five things Facebook did this week" By Dorrine Mendoza, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2012.

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• We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Doe

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• As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Long, Dollars

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• Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

  Jose Mujica

  Eight, Today, Waste

  "Poverty and the Presidency: Uruguay’s Jose Mujica" by Conrad Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  John Lennon

  Music, Mean, Circles

  Playboy Interview, January 1981.

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• We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

  Pat Robertson

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "US Christian extremist branded a terrorist". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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