Spending Quotes - Page 39

• It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

  Alex Grey

  School, Museums, Boston

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  Garet Garrett

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Might

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

  Michel Gondry

  Encouragement, Years, Parent

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

  Jessica Alba

  Kids, Directors, Agents

  "Jessica Alba In ‘Elle’: Shows Skin, Talks Motherhood". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.

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• To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

  Shinzo Abe

  Children, Japan, Issues

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• Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Vaccines, Childhood, Dollars

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Years, Together, Loved Ones

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• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  Susan Estrich

  Party, Nuts, People

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• I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

  George Harrison

  Mind, Quality, Whole

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• We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Years, Politics, Quitting

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• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Thinking, Demand

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Groups, More Time

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• And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

  Richard Dooling

  Eight, Pieces, Care

  "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

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• The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

  Jeff Flake

  Country, United States, Debate

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• I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

  Luis Fortuno

  Country, Principles, Taxes

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• I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

  Robert M. Gates

  Strong, Looks, Adults

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• Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Today, Healthcare

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• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

  Sharon Horgan

  Thinking, Long, People

  "This much I know". Interview With Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Style, Alive

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• When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, People, Democracy

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• If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

  Pete Sessions

  Country, Government, Messages

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• Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Giving, People

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

  Victor Hugo

  Way, Leisure, Philosopher

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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