Bills Quotes - Page 27

• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fiction, Pay, Instinct

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• Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

  Tim Walberg

  Law, Innovation, Needs

  "Walberg Statement: Hearing on "The Fair Labor Standards Act: Is It Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Economy?" As prepared for delivery". Committee Statements, edworkforce.house.gov. July 14, 2011.

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• If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion

  Dennis Miller

  Cost, Billions, Good Hair

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• The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Immigration, Units, Comprehensive

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• Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

  Charlie Pierce

  Congratulations, Pride, Self

  "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

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• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Russia, Twenties, Dollar Bills

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Tails

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• Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  America, Lines, Opinion

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Iowa, Cities

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• Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Issues, Greedy, Bank Accounts

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• I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Flower, Home, Tree

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.48, Penguin

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• I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

  Sadie Jones

  Mind, Balance, Letters

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• I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

  Burton Cummings

  Play, Voice, Keith

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• Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  Foster Friess

  Jobs, Zuckerberg, Effort

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• Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communication and support, but you don't have to deal with the realities of paying bills together, or being annoyed when they leave the toilet seat up or don't put the food away in the fridge.

  Nev Schulman

  Communication, Reality, Support

  "Q&A: Catfish's Nev Schulman on How Real the Show Is". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 25, 2013.

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• If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

  Morgan Wootten

  Pay, Ifs, I Can

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• There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.

  Karl Hess

  Government, People, Modern Life

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• Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

  Alex Steffen

  Powerful, Home, Practice

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• Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Thinking, Taught

  "Moss on Kaepernick: ‘I really just compliment his leadership’". Interview with Eric Branch, blog.sfgate.com. December 12, 2012.

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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Distance, Anchors, Long

  "The Lost Art Of Telephone Conversation" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

  Ann Coulter

  Ideas, Feelings, Listening

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.172, Crown Forum

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• [A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare,
  that's darned good advice to follow.
  Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
  And be careful what you swallow.

  Dr. Seuss

  Air, Advice, Hot

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• [T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular the article of the Constitution of the United States which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.... This particular church, therefore, would so far be a religious establishment by law, a legal force and sanction being given to certain articles in its constitution and administration.

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Government

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