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• And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

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• And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Horse, Sorry, Real

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Book, Law, Want

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Cities, President

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• If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, People, Ordinary

  "Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Government, House

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Borders, Cards

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• If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

  Emily Blunt

  America, Trying, Energy

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• I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?

  Emily Blunt

  Shadow, Trying, Needs

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Heaven, Earth, Lovers

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• A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Challenges, Mind, Whole

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• I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Football, Party, School

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Italian, Japan, Talking

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• I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Different, Lawyer

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• If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Dollars, Would Be, Tonight

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• If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

  Boethius

  If There Is A God, Evil, There Is No God

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• I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

  Andrew Bogut

  Years, Normal, Persons

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

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

  David Boies

  Technology, Data, People

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• I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fire, Race, Black

  "Darkwater: The Givens Collection".

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  Usain Bolt

  Running, Winning, Celebrate

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

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• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  Usain Bolt

  Girl, Want, Married

  "Usain Bolt: Fast and loose" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

  John Bolton

  New York, Differences, Stories

  "Rand Paul Warns Donald Trump Not To Choose ‘Menace’ John Bolton As Secretary Of State" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2016.

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