“If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.” IfsWayI CanAmountTablesEnormousCigarette Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"” AbleAmountPaidActressesAgentsDiscussion Author:Felicity Jones
“If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.” IfsKidsAbleRealizingGreaterPrideAmountIncrediblesReally Great Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.” PeopleYearsLooksMadeStillsHelpingWatchesTvsGoes OnAmountComfortableAlbumsOur FamilyLook At MeChillAccountantsLiving Comfortably Author:Rakim
“If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.” PeopleIfsShouldTryingCountryGovernmentAmericaHouseMillionsAmountLateDollarsBillionsToo LateFriendlyLatinAsiaPeasantsLatin AmericaBefore It's Too Late Author:Malcolm X
“Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.” PeopleThinkingEnoughRememberFireAmountWeightContrarySmokeGentleEnginesThrust Author:John Glenn
“While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.” MindPiecesPaintingAmountComedianPairsUsualUniquenessGlueSmall AmountsScissorsMadras Author:St. Lucia
“I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to.” ThinkingTryingTogetherBrotherAmount Author:Denzel Washington
“Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.” ThinkingArtAmountMusic IsArt IsObjectivesSurprising Author:Jerry Garcia
“[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.” WantRaceAmountThings To DoFormulasOlympicsSmall AmountsFormula One Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsArtReasonMovingOrderInformationAmountNeededPeriodsNew WaysCavesPsychedelicEncyclopediaPsychedelic ExperienceNew Way Of Life Author:Howard Rheingold
“I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.” GivingTryingAmountContributionRequestVaryPersonal Time Author:LaVell Edwards
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingMeanPersonsEndsNextGoalInterestingSacrificeCrazyLike YouAmountBeatsGainsFinancialAssFirmHelpfulGet AheadCrazy World Author:Dane DeHaan
“It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.” JobsTrumpAmountCreatingTheatreEnormousSavingInverseCreating JobsStaging Author:Jonathan Chait
“Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.” KnowsGivingSometimesFactsCoursesKnow HowExampleAmountEntertainmentExtrasLayersBiasViewpointsEditorialsCnnLaughable Author:Frank Zappa
“Actually, I don't get to do it (watch 5 or so news shows) every day, but I manage to do it at least 5 times a week. And the rest of the time I'm doing interviews. I do an amazing amount of interviews.” ShowsWatchesWeekAmountNewsManageInterviews Author:Frank Zappa
“In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsMomentsLawAbilityDemocracyInformationAmountProtectEuropeThreatTerroristBeing TrueWorriedBordersLaw EnforcementEnforcementEffectivenessLiberal DemocracyInformation Sharing Author:Barack Obama
“On the issue past of independence of Germany, after the time of National Socialism, Germany has been given an enormous amount of help particularly and also from the United States of America. A fact that we were able to enjoy German unification is due first and foremost to the help of the United States of America.” FirstsHas BeensStatesFactsHelpingAbleAmericaPastGivenEnjoyUnitedUnited StatesIssuesAmountIndependenceDuesEnormousSocialismGermanyUnited States Of AmericaUnification Author:Angela Merkel
“The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.” WayShouldDoeMediaNew YorkTelevisionAmountNewsRadioDamageStationsUnbelievableNew York TimesRadio StationsTelevision And Radio Author:Jackie Mason
“The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.” PeopleUseAmountGunVersusMillennium Author:Kanye West
“I've spent a fair amount of time down at the border.I have watched as these packs of marijuana are on the backs of young men that are walking across the border. They're hauling an average of about 65 pounds, some of them every day they take another load.” MenYoungAmountWalkingFairsAverageBordersYoung ManPoundsMarijuanaLoadPacks Author:Steve King
“I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.” PeopleAmountDrugFairsSmuggling Author:Steve King
“Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount of time he's playing and say, 'is this sustainable?' I look at it the other way. Are we playing the right way, are we playing together as a team, and what are his minutes like? This is not a guy that's playing 42 minutes a night. When he goes out there he's going to play to who he is, and I think he also understands that in order for our team to be the best we can be he's got to incorporate and help everybody grow as players.” ThinkingWayLooksDifferentPlayHelpingTogetherNightGuyOrderGamesGrowsPlayerTeamMinutesAmountImpactDifferent WaysBeing The BestRight WayUsagePlaying Together Author:Russell Westbrook
“No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.” MatterMomentsMinutesAmountNo Matter WhatBeing The BestNegativityBest Moments Author:Mod Sun
“Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.” DoneAmountIsraelEnormousMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.” WorldFeelingsGovernmentPoliticalMovementHugeAmountRight NowWaveEnormousEstablishmentPolitical Movements Author:Tony Blair
“I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.” ThinkingKnowsSelfCertainBitsAwarenessAmountSelf AwarenessInsightAbout Yourself Author:Kofi Annan
“My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.” GuyFatherBlackAmountFairsIndependentLunchArrestedNashvilleBlack Guys Author:Nat Hentoff
“In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.” PeopleFeelsYearsStatesReasonLastsLostNationsResultsSecurityAmountEnormousWelfareThirtyInsecureSovereigntyGlobalizationKoreaNorth KoreaThirty YearsWelfare StateBurma Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.” FeelsLooksMomentsCertainActorsSuccessfulSpecialIndustryAmountOfficeBoxesCriticalDespiteRecognitionCherishPeersBox OfficeAcclaimSpecial Moments Author:Hrithik Roshan
“Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.” WritingSelfFunAmountMedicationSmall Amounts Author:Roxane Gay
“[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBookWarCountrySubjectsHugeAmountResearchPlanningUndertakingsNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“I think the universal theme would be love and relationships and how if you really want to live and be alive that that's proven through the amount of love you give and receive.” IfsThinkingWantGivingWould BeAliveLove YouAmountUniversalThemeProvenGiving And ReceivingLove And RelationshipUniversal Themes Author:Boti Bliss
“All I've ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.” WayTryingDoneHugeAmountMy WayHeaviness Author:Bob Saget
“I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being governed by more and more powerful interests, by fewer and fewer people in the sense of the amount of money that has controlled access and other kinds of things.” PeopleThinkingKindAmericaInterestPowerfulGreaterToo MuchAmountDegreesAccessAppropriateControlledFewer Author:John F. Kerry
“The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.” DifferentTodayDealsInformationAmountAdministration Author:Barack Obama
“There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.” PeopleYearsStillsWarAmericaAmountIndependenceForgottenUnbelievableAnimosity Author:Steven Knight
“There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved from film writers, film actors, and I think gradually people are easing themselves into the amount of time they have.” PeopleThinkingFilmActorsTelevisionEvolutionAmountFilm Actors Author:Steven Knight
“Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.” WantWellsMeanBookEndsReadingQualityCompanyTechnologyEconomyRightsAmountCostModelsFairsManagementLibraryWideVarietyRangeGenerousReasonableDigitalDevicesQuantityUsersPublishersFlexibleCompensationBook ReadingHigh QualityHardwareBusiness ModelsVendors Author:Tom Peters
“I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.” ThinkingCertainTurnsWalksAmountDown AndRadioMics Author:Joe Buck
“That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.” PeopleCountryHouseWhiteTalkingFourAmountFitPressesWhite HouseAllowingConferencesCoveragePress Conferences Author:Reince Priebus
“The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.” IfsMenGivingShouldDoeTwoChurchLove YouHe ManAmountMessagesValuableNeighborEnormousCarrieCoatsLove Your NeighborLove Your Neighbor As Yourself Author:Anna Quindlen
“I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.” MenWantYearsKindDoneProblemKidsReadingBornCommunityJusticeAmountCostMental HealthMathCriminalsAfrican AmericanDamageOur SocietyCarrieExposureDisadvantagesOur CommunityJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemHealth Problems Author:Barack Obama
“There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.” WorldKindDifferentOrderAmountFairsCompetitionThreatChinaTerroristAround The WorldDifferent KindsPosingIsil Author:Samantha Power
“It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.” ArtSchoolChangedStudentsAmountMajorityMuseumsDisgustingThis SocietyArt School Author:Kiki Smith
“Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensJobsPoliticalSubjectsMediaTrumpAmountShould HaveCriticsConservativeAdministrationOpponentsCandidatesMainstreamShould Have BeenScrutinyMainstream MediaDissidentsStalwartPolitical Candidates Author:Michelle Malkin
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.” UniverseSupportAirAmountBlessedBreatheDespiteAtmosphereOxygenEnvelopes Author:Sylvia Earle