Spending Quotes - Page 28

• The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Practice

  "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

  Donald Miller

  Morning, Sunday, Church Service

  "Born-again rebel Don Miller reveals 'best sermon I ever heard'" by John Blake, www.cnn.com.

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• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Bill Mumy

  Media, Age, Golden

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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, School, Matter

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• I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.

  Steve Wilkos

  Growing Up, Taken, Years

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• When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Moving, Kids

  Michelle Obama's Remarks During White House Convening on Food Marketing to Children, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 18, 2013.

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• What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

  Erica Jong

  Way

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
  Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Mean, Egypt, Missing

  Priscilla Shirer (2010). “One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

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• We need to stop spending money we don't have.

  Paul Ryan

  Needs, Spending Money

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Party, Cutting

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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Gold, Wealth

  "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan, www.constitution.org. 1966.

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Economy

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Husband, Crazy, Years

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Stupid, Believe, Thinking

  "Jerry Seinfeld Gets Brutally Honest About Advertising in This Hilarious Speech at the Clios". www.adweek.com. October 02, 2014.

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• Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.

  Naomi Klein

  Cutting, Age, Income

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

  PSY

  Moving, Night, Thinking

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

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• It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Nice, People, Challenges

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• There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

  Charles Bass

  Differences, Support, Economy

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• If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Purpose

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.13, Macmillan

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• People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

  Diablo Cody

  Girl, Clever, Teenage

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• I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

  Norma McCorvey

  Lying, Thinking, Law

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• Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Inspirational, Children, Important

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• I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.

  Fred Durst

  Life, Thinking, Keys

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• If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Stay Strong, Quiet, Lied

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