Budgets Quotes - Page 28

• Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.

  Sheila Fraser

  Jobs, Thoughtful, People

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• The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.

  Pat Robertson

  Army, Agency, Pollution Control

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

  John Bolton

  Abuse, Defense, Waste

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Elderly

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• Governors have to balance budgets. And they have to make decisions. And they have to do things that sometimes aren't popular. And they also have to bring people together to try to solve problems.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Decision, Trying

  "Is the left waging a war against college men?". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2015.

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• In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reality, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

  Christopher Nolan

  Logistics, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Independent, Vision, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

  Anne Hathaway

  Jumping, Special, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never have to meet the test of reality when you're writing.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mean, Reality

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

  Lena Dunham

  Lows, Persons

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• If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.

  Ben Goldacre

  Years, Use, Trials

  "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.

  Clifford Stoll

  Dream, Children, Book

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• I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year - to really dissect the budget.

  Tyra Banks

  Eye, Years, Goal

  "Celebrity 100: Tyra Banks On It". Interview with Kiri Blakeley, www.forbes.com. July 03, 2006.

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• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Moon, Financial

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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• American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

  Pat Buchanan

  America, Enemy, Culture

  Pat Buchanan's Presidential announcement speech in Courtyard, New Hampshire, buchanan.org. March 2, 1999.

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• Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Country, Military, Lying

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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• I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

  Gordon Brown

  Would Be, Purpose, Guides

  Hansard, 6 ser., vol. 308 col. 111, March 17, 1998.

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• Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all.

  David Graeber

  Running, Military, War

  "Debt: The First 5000 Years". Book by David Graeber, 2011.

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• I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Phones, Talking, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Home, Opportunity

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1411, Best Books on

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• Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Growth, Speed

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1412, Best Books on

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• I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

  Jabari Asim

  Book, Talent, Not Happy

  "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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