“Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.” PeopleKnowsLittlesPersonsDoeStrongDealsTalkingMillionsEnvironmentCrazyWorstClothesHappeningsHundredWeakHollywoodSickDollarsBullshitWorst ThingsCan NotMillion DollarsNobody KnowsDavePeople TalkingStrong PeopleWeak People Author:Dave Chappelle
“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.” IfsWorldWayFeelsWritingChildrenKidsTodayAmericaValuesSpeakFeltParentClassStudentsLike YouTaxesHappeningsThirdsOur ChildrenDollarsInvestmentYour ChildrenGradesZeroClassroomThird WorldAttendingKindergartenAmerican EducationTax DollarsInvestment In Education Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.” FirstsMadeWalksDoorsPromiseHappeningsDollarsCustomersBrandsDefeatedDisrespected Author:Seth Godin
“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.” PeopleThinkingLooksMadeWholeBigsFilmProcessTermSimpleImagineEasierCostHappeningsEnglandDollarsStudiosFinanceBudgetsMovie SetsWrong Words Author:Eric Fellner
“It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.” WorldWarFactsEnergyInterestDangerousConflictHappeningsDollarsFuelRegimesFossilsFossil FuelGeopoliticalAggravated Author:Mark Ruffalo
“There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.” WayWantPersonsMillionsAmountHappeningsDollarsOscarsAcademy Author:Don Cheadle
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.” YearsLooksMayEndsCountrySituationSeriousHappeningsPercentDollarsDebtNinePlusComing OutFourthUnemploymentDeficit Author:Allen West