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“People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.”

People May Products Paper Familiar Cups Household Terrified Items Carpet Towels Boycott Dixie Paper Towels

Author:Jane Mayer

“There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.”

People Might Nations Process Realizing Library Congress Manage Items Domain Copyright

Author:Carla Hayden

“Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.”

Ends Belief Cases Highest Pursuit Relate Immortality Items Belief In God

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.”

Doe Ends Regard Related Agency Items

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.”

Home Style Add Including Photograph Items Nostalgic Decorating Personal Touch

Author:Karlie Kloss

“Even if you just want to make a simple clothing item for yourself or go for a long hike in the forest - something we imagine requires absolutely no resources - you have to go to the store and buy a lot of stuff, and probably use a car.”

Ifs Want Long Use Stuff Simple Imagine Car Resources Stores Forests Clothings Items

Author:Catherine Wilson

“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

“According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.”

Wells Whole Next Lines Military Projects Percent Priorities Bunch Budgets Serving Items Expenditures Footnotes Military Budget

Author:Jill Stein

“Sometimes when I'm on the internet, I'll get this, like, which of these ad experiences would you prefer? And I'll have a choice of, like, a car, a pharmaceutical item or, you know, clothing. And I'm thinking, like, I don't want any of these. Do I have to choose?”

Thinking Knows Want Sometimes Choices Car Internet Ads Clothings Items Pharmaceutical

Author:Terry Gross

“The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.”

Stuff President Lines Congress Items Veto

Author:Tim Kaine

“One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.”

Thinking Writing Danger Particular Development Topics Items Blogs Opinionated

Author:Mickey Kaus

“There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.”

People Bigs Car Tools Miles Electricity Items Manly Lame Basements Hybrid Locomotives Power Tools

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“[Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics.”

People Three Modern Listening Trump Lists Agendas Items American Politics

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.”

People Thinking Helping Problem Jobs Economic Republican Pressure Investing Congress Access Convince Agendas Wages Items Infrastructure Good Education Alleviate Dislocation

Author:Barack Obama

“Сount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.”

Looks Bigs Dollars Budgets Tickets Items Pennies

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.”

Ifs Looks Home Bigs Car Bills Coffee Faster Budgets Buying Pockets Apartment Tickets Items Cheaper Draining Overspending

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps - that are necessary for running such a huge empire.”

Trying Running Simple Figures Huge Empires Maps Items

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.”

Facts Stories Okay Gossip Items

Author:Paul Newman

“I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.”

Heart Stuff Sleep Cold Bed Intimate Reports Sheets Leaving Me Items Columns Powder Minerva

Author:Paul Newman

“For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.”

Seems Night Seeing Century Walking Late Strikes Stores Luxury Fake Melancholy Pens Items Luxury Items

Author:William Gibson

“We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, I realize that's my top agenda item. That's the thing I need to do."”

Knows Needs Feels Realizing Class Progress Economic Middle Clinton Middle Class Agendas Items Economic Progress

Author:Reid Hoffman

“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.”

“The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.”

Thinking Mind Important Levels Healthy Essentials Benefits Findings Survival Conviction Wellness Peace Of Mind Immense Items Luxurious

Author:Dalai Lama

“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.”

“Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.”

Cooking Fishes Release Flavor Perfume Items Wraps Herbs Steam Bundles Foils

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”

Men Mean Fighting Justice Powerful Support Rights Feminism Fashion Equal Empowerment Protection Labels Items Equal Rights Badges Basic Things

Author:Annie Lennox

“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.”

Whole Government Care Individual Forever Health Citizens Folks Medical Health Care Budgets Schemes Items Expenditures Insidious

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.”

Should Two Joy Items Criteria Utility Wardrobe

Author:Stacy London

“We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.”

Needs School Healthy Program Machines Reform Lunch Items Vending Machines School Lunch

Author:Joan Lunden

“I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.”

Different Shows Three Stars Party Week News Reactions Extras Gossip Three Times Items Vegas Las Vegas Premieres

Author:Holly Madison

“Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.”

Reality Certain Literature Force Causes Powerful Class Witty Physics Recalls Items Refrigerators Magnetism

Author:Dave Barry

“Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.”

Persons Action Social Influence Information Benefits Organization Release Deception Manipulation Engineering Trusted Items Request Insiders Social Engineering

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.”

Dies Energy Electricity Galaxy Items Somewhere Else Electrical Electrical Energy

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”

World Character Past Novel Artificial Items My Past Treasured

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.”

Mean Literature Eating Treats Posts Classic Fascinating Description Dishes Finest Items One Word Skip Menus Food Love Classic Literature I Love Food

Author:Rachel Nichols

“I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.”

Would Be Faces Imagine Guitar Plastic Items Collectors Fetch

Author:Gary Oldman

“The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”

Mean Law Involved Proportion Agendas Items Corny Time Spent Triviality Inverse

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.”

Pieces Gaps Navy Items Vintage Thrift Inexpensive

Author:Katy Perry

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.”

Next Energy Interest Technology Generations Internet Cost Lows Radio Connected Tiny Controlled Items Next Generation Frequency Identification Embedded Computing Server Sensors

Author:David Petraeus

“I am happy to receive any items of jewelry.”

Items Jewelry

Author:Katie Price

“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.”

Needs Years Children Done Helping Kids Poor Draws Areas Years Ago Sticks Fishes Extremes France Chickens Items Good Food Drumsticks

Author:Joel Robuchon

“Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.”

Book Presses Luxury Items Printing Printing Press Luxury Items

Author:Nate Silver

“A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.”

People Cases Tvs Spots Buying Items Stains Duplicate

Author:Martha Stewart

“My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.”

Years Firsts Millions Revenue Items

Author:Sara Blakely

“The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.”

Beautiful Simple Bed Sheets Items Luxurious

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.”

Cases Fans Son Knives Items Collectors Franklin Wade Mint Hamptons Oldest Son

Author:Josh Turner

“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?”

Ifs Should Care Funny Fire Doors Theory Smell Block Organized Cleaning Items Housework Chores Refrigerators Multiplying Clean House House Cleaning

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.”

Said Mother Order Dies Literature Terrible Items Obituary Alphabetical Order

Author:Erma Bombeck

“We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.”

People Trying Humans Nations Rights Bills Human Rights Lists Accepted Shelter Items Bill Of Rights

Author:Muhammad Yunus

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