Dollars Quotes - Page 19

• The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Three, Debt

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". edition.cnn.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Needs, Should

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• To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Struggle, People

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• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Nba, Games

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

  Linda Evangelista

  Team, Hiv, World

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

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• I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

  Guy Fieri

  Dad, Kids, Trying

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Strong, Thinking, Results

  "The World According To Carly Fiorina". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.wired.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Boon, Trade

  "The World According To Carly Fiorina". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.wired.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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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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• I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

  Jodie Foster

  Jobs, Sleep, Connections

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• Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

  Josh Fox

  Law, Oil, Safety

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, Iowa, Tuesday

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• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

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• If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Years, Salary

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• In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, House, Pay

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

  John Grisham

  Nurse, Rose, Firsts

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• I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

  Judy Holliday

  Yesterday, Hollywood, Done

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• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Years, Cost, Benefits

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• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  Naveen Jain

  Teacher, Brain, Students

  "Naveen Jain on Rethinking Education: Can We Use Neuroscience to Create Better Learners". www.forbes.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

  Rick James

  Rapper, Artist, Sampling

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 27, 2012

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• This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

  Penn Jillette

  Couple, Dad, Years

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

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

  Gary Johnson

  Opportunity, Common Sense, Political

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