Millions Quotes - Page 36

• I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Dollars, Film

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• If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Tattoo, Regret, Google

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• We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

  David M. Raup

  Example, Transition, Fossils

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• I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Reading, Men

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

  Joel Barlow

  Left Behind, Mankind, Behinds

  Joel Barlow, “ADVICe To A Raven In Russia (1812)”

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• Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  People, Challenges, Church

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• While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

  Bruce Hornsby

  People, Way, Things Change

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• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

  George Vaillant

  Years, Twenties, Dollars

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• The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

  George Ayittey

  Jubilation, Election, Barack

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• SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

  Jan Carlzon

  Years, Alternatives, Succeed

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Gdp, Squares, Half

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• My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Suffering, Dying, Church

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

  James Randi

  Dating, Claims, Paranormal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Years, Giving

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• Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Book, America, Library

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• I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

  Neal Stephenson

  Clothes, Dollars, Firsts

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

  George Sand

  Sorrow, Cigar, Hours

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• But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, United States, Joining

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Country, People, India

  "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview With Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• Welcome to We Day! Since last year, WE have volunteered over 1.7 million hours of our time!

  Craig Kielburger

  Years, Lasts, Welcome

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• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  Victor Cruz

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

  John T. Flynn

  Victory, Groups, Dollars

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• And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

  Rick Mercer

  Democracy, Complaining, Three

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Sleep, Night

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